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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French chaunterie; equivalent to chaunten + -erie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)riː(ə)/
Noun
chaunterie
- An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510:
[...] And ran to London, un-to sëynt Poules,
To seken him a chaunterie for soules, [...]- And run to London unto Saint Paul's,
To seek an appointment as a chantry priest,
- A chantry (chapel set up for the above endowment)
- (rare) The chanting which occurs during Mass.
- c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63:
[...] Fro þe kyng watʒ cummen with knyʒtes in to þe halle,
Þe chauntre of þe chapel cheued to an ende; [...]- For the king was come with knights into the hall,
And chanting in the chapel had chimed to an end;
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