单词 | sub-chantress |
释义 | sub-chantressn. Christian Church. Now historical. A nun who assists the precentor of a convent. Cf. sub-chanter n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > precentor > deputy > female sub-chantress?c1450 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > precentor's deputy > female sub-chantress?c1450 ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 292 Amonge the sustres thes officers are to be hadde..the chauntres and sub-chauntresses, the sexteyne and undersexteyn. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. 229 The four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canoness. 1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. lix. 363 The sub-chantress at Syon was to have experience of the ordinal and making of the table for the quire. 1906 A. Hamilton Chron. Eng. Augustinian Canonesses II. ix. 182 She performed the office of chantress or sub-chantress above twenty years. 2003 P. Ackroyd Clerkenwell Tales (2005) 6 Sister Bona, the sub-chantress, was reading aloud from the Vitis Mystica. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1450 |
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