choristern.

/ˈkɒrɪstə/

Forms: Middle English quarester, queristre, querestere, Middle English–1600s querester, Middle English querestur, 1500s queryster, querrister, quirrester, queristere, coruster, 1500s–1700s querister, quirister (also archaic in 1800s), 1600s querrester, quirester, quirrister, quorister, 1600s–1800s choirister, 1600s– chorister.

Etymology: Middle English querestre , -istre , probably < Anglo-Norman cueristre variant of cueriste , < medieval Latin chorista after cuer , quer choir n.: see chorist n. The older pronunciation /ˈkwɪrɪstə(r)/ came down to the nineteenth century.

1. A member of a choir of singers.

a. of a church choir; now spec. a choirboy. Also: a choir-leader (U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun]

songereOE

childOE

clergionc1325

choristerc1360

chanterc1384

quirera1425

choirman1488

singing man1527

clerk1549

chorista1552

songman1599

singing boy1666

sing-man1691

white boy1691

white man1691

choirist1773

secular1786

chorister-boy1817

choirboy1843

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > choral singer > leader of choir

choragus1727

chorister1769

c1360 Song Deo Gratias in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 124 Alle þe queristres in þat qwer . On þat word [Deo gracias] . fast gon þei cri.

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 511 With inne þe quere..He herde queresters full mery syng.

1436 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 105 To euery secundary & clerc of the chirch iiij^d, and to euery quarester ij^d.

1450 Rolls Parl. V. 188/1, xii Quaresters, and a maister to teche hem.

1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII xlii, in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 599 Chapleines Clerkes Corusters.

1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xii. sig. H^v The Choristers the ioyous Antheme sing.

1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xlviii. 184 The Quoristers and instruments of Musicke made melody.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enfant de cœur, a Quirester, or singing boy.

a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 133 (note) Sung by two thousand quoristers.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. vi. 20 Like a quirister.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 11 13 priests, and four choiristers.

1769 in Plymouth Church Records (1920) II. 332 To choose one or more Persons (since our dear Brother John May is taken from us by death who was our former Chorister) to lead in singing in the publick Worship.

1777 in Plymouth Church Records (1920) II. 353 Deacon Crombie, our former Chorister, had left ye usual Singer's Seat.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 43 A melody..sung by the pure voice of a boyish chorister.

1930 W. R. Moody Life D. L. Moody (ed. 2) 141 Moody had engaged a young man..to be chorister in his church and Sunday school.

b. of an angelic choir.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > angels with specific tasks

angel of death1565

chorister1584

recording angel1762

death angel1796

destroying angel1814

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > choral singer > of angelic choir

chorister1584

1584 H. Constable Poems (1859) 61 The angel-quiristers of th' heavenly skyes.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 231 Angels and Cherubins, the cœlestiall Choristers.

1858–62 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 19 Heavenly quiristers, nymphs and demons.

1870 D. G. Rossetti Blessed Damozel (rev. ed.) iii Her seemed she scarce had been a day One of God's Choristers.

c. One of a flock of singing birds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound > one of flock

chorister1596

chorist1763

1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. L^v All you winged queristers of woode.

1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) Pref. sig. A7^v Those little Choristers of the Aire, the Birds, delight to Chirp and quaver.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxviii. 128 The feather'd quiristers.

†2. A singer. (often depreciative.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun]

songsterOE

singerc1330

chantera1387

singster1388

voicea1513

modulatora1527

chorister1589

songman1603

cantor1609

warbler1611

melodist1789

vocalist1790

cantator1866

vocaller1876

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome (1843) 30 Among your roring quiristers.

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xlvii. sig. Mm3 I am not moued against Nero for any thing more (excepting his Quiristers occupation).

1640 J. D. Knave in Graine i. i. sig. B4 To say truth, I am no good Querister.

†3. Ancient Greek History. A member of the chorus. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > chorus in ancient Greek drama > member of

chorister1603

chorist1763

choreutes1855

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 456 Placed last in the dance by him who was the master chorister.

†4. Perhaps: one of a band. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose > member of

chorister1387

leaguer1591

combinator1611

associator1613

combinant1628

combiner1638

federate1650

federator1693

band-brother1742

leagueist1762

leaguite1841

belonger1931

panel member1937

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. vii. xli Þe secounde Edward..loved strongliche oon of his queresters [v.r. qwysteres, whistrers; L. unum aliquem familiarem].

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 410 Now thou art my awne querestur! I wote where thou wonnes.

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Hvi Mahumetes doctours and the Popes queresters. Yea styll they are aloft in their beastlye beggerye.

Compounds

chorister-bishop, chorister-boy.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun]

songereOE

childOE

clergionc1325

choristerc1360

chanterc1384

quirera1425

choirman1488

singing man1527

clerk1549

chorista1552

songman1599

singing boy1666

sing-man1691

white boy1691

white man1691

choirist1773

secular1786

chorister-boy1817

choirboy1843

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 113 The Episcopus Choristarum was a Chorister Bishop chosen by his fellow Children upon S. Nicholas daie.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 117 In Case the Chorister Bishop died within the Moneth, his Exsequies were solemnized with an answerable glorious Pomp and Sadness.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxiii. 289 A hymn..sung on the stage by the choirister boys!

1876 C. Darwin Autobiogr. in Life & Lett. I At Cambridge..I sometimes hired the chorister boys to sing in my rooms.

Derivatives

choristership n. the office of a chorister.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] > office of

choristership1536

1536 Act 27 Hen VIII c. 42 §1 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 13 Chaplenshippes, Clerkeshippes, Corustershippes.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. i. 10 Frank had leave to try for the vacant choristership.

choristry n. rare the performance of choristers.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing together

chorus1656

choiring1773

symphony1776

choristry1860

community singing1875

choralism1927

1860 S. T. Dobell Poems 178 Rolling a sea of choristry.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	chorister
释义	choristern. /ˈkɒrɪstə/ Forms: Middle English quarester, queristre, querestere, Middle English–1600s querester, Middle English querestur, 1500s queryster, querrister, quirrester, queristere, coruster, 1500s–1700s querister, quirister (also archaic in 1800s), 1600s querrester, quirester, quirrister, quorister, 1600s–1800s choirister, 1600s– chorister. Etymology: Middle English querestre , -istre , probably < Anglo-Norman cueristre variant of cueriste , < medieval Latin chorista after cuer , quer choir n.: see chorist n. The older pronunciation /ˈkwɪrɪstə(r)/ came down to the nineteenth century. 1. A member of a choir of singers. a. of a church choir; now spec. a choirboy. Also: a choir-leader (U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] songereOE childOE clergionc1325 choristerc1360 chanterc1384 quirera1425 choirman1488 singing man1527 clerk1549 chorista1552 songman1599 singing boy1666 sing-man1691 white boy1691 white man1691 choirist1773 secular1786 chorister-boy1817 choirboy1843 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > choral singer > leader of choir choragus1727 chorister1769 c1360 Song Deo Gratias in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 124 Alle þe queristres in þat qwer . On þat word [Deo gracias] . fast gon þei cri. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 511 With inne þe quere..He herde queresters full mery syng. 1436 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 105 To euery secundary & clerc of the chirch iiij^d, and to euery quarester ij^d. 1450 Rolls Parl. V. 188/1, xii Quaresters, and a maister to teche hem. 1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII xlii, in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 599 Chapleines Clerkes Corusters. 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xii. sig. H^v The Choristers the ioyous Antheme sing. 1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xlviii. 184 The Quoristers and instruments of Musicke made melody. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enfant de cœur, a Quirester, or singing boy. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 133 (note) Sung by two thousand quoristers. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. vi. 20 Like a quirister. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 11 13 priests, and four choiristers. 1769 in Plymouth Church Records (1920) II. 332 To choose one or more Persons (since our dear Brother John May is taken from us by death who was our former Chorister) to lead in singing in the publick Worship. 1777 in Plymouth Church Records (1920) II. 353 Deacon Crombie, our former Chorister, had left ye usual Singer's Seat. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 43 A melody..sung by the pure voice of a boyish chorister. 1930 W. R. Moody Life D. L. Moody (ed. 2) 141 Moody had engaged a young man..to be chorister in his church and Sunday school. b. of an angelic choir. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > angels with specific tasks angel of death1565 chorister1584 recording angel1762 death angel1796 destroying angel1814 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > choral singer > of angelic choir chorister1584 1584 H. Constable Poems (1859) 61 The angel-quiristers of th' heavenly skyes. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 231 Angels and Cherubins, the cœlestiall Choristers. 1858–62 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 19 Heavenly quiristers, nymphs and demons. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Blessed Damozel (rev. ed.) iii Her seemed she scarce had been a day One of God's Choristers. c. One of a flock of singing birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound > one of flock chorister1596 chorist1763 1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. L^v All you winged queristers of woode. 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) Pref. sig. A7^v Those little Choristers of the Aire, the Birds, delight to Chirp and quaver. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxviii. 128 The feather'd quiristers. †2. A singer. (often depreciative.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] songsterOE singerc1330 chantera1387 singster1388 voicea1513 modulatora1527 chorister1589 songman1603 cantor1609 warbler1611 melodist1789 vocalist1790 cantator1866 vocaller1876 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome (1843) 30 Among your roring quiristers. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xlvii. sig. Mm3 I am not moued against Nero for any thing more (excepting his Quiristers occupation). 1640 J. D. Knave in Graine i. i. sig. B4 To say truth, I am no good Querister. †3. Ancient Greek History. A member of the chorus. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > chorus in ancient Greek drama > member of chorister1603 chorist1763 choreutes1855 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 456 Placed last in the dance by him who was the master chorister. †4. Perhaps: one of a band. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose > member of chorister1387 leaguer1591 combinator1611 associator1613 combinant1628 combiner1638 federate1650 federator1693 band-brother1742 leagueist1762 leaguite1841 belonger1931 panel member1937 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. vii. xli Þe secounde Edward..loved strongliche oon of his queresters [v.r. qwysteres, whistrers; L. unum aliquem familiarem]. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 410 Now thou art my awne querestur! I wote where thou wonnes. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Hvi Mahumetes doctours and the Popes queresters. Yea styll they are aloft in their beastlye beggerye. Compounds chorister-bishop, chorister-boy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] songereOE childOE clergionc1325 choristerc1360 chanterc1384 quirera1425 choirman1488 singing man1527 clerk1549 chorista1552 songman1599 singing boy1666 sing-man1691 white boy1691 white man1691 choirist1773 secular1786 chorister-boy1817 choirboy1843 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 113 The Episcopus Choristarum was a Chorister Bishop chosen by his fellow Children upon S. Nicholas daie. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 117 In Case the Chorister Bishop died within the Moneth, his Exsequies were solemnized with an answerable glorious Pomp and Sadness. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxiii. 289 A hymn..sung on the stage by the choirister boys! 1876 C. Darwin Autobiogr. in Life & Lett. I At Cambridge..I sometimes hired the chorister boys to sing in my rooms. Derivatives choristership n. the office of a chorister. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] > office of choristership1536 1536 Act 27 Hen VIII c. 42 §1 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 13 Chaplenshippes, Clerkeshippes, Corustershippes. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. i. 10 Frank had leave to try for the vacant choristership. choristry n. rare the performance of choristers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing together chorus1656 choiring1773 symphony1776 choristry1860 community singing1875 choralism1927 1860 S. T. Dobell Poems 178 Rolling a sea of choristry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1360
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