- chantry priest
- noun
Etymology: Middle English chanterie prest, from chanterie chantry + prest priest: the incumbent of a chantry endowment
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
chantry priest
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Chantry priest — a priest whose function is to say or sing masses for the soul of a dead person in a chantry chapel … Medieval glossary
Chantry High School (Worcestershire) — Chantry High School Established Reopened 1963 Type Secondary Religion non denominational Head teacher Stephen Jowet … Wikipedia
Chantry — For other uses, see Chantry (disambiguation). Chantry is the English term for a fund established to pay for a priest to celebrate sung Masses for a specified purpose, generally for the soul of the deceased donor. Chantries were endowed with lands … Wikipedia
Chantry island — is a small patch of land surrounded by a small dyke, giving the impression that it is an Island. It is located in the grounds of the All Saints Pastoral centre, part of the Archdiocese of Westminster, in London Colney, Hertfordshire.Chantry… … Wikipedia
Chantry Island, Hertfordshire — Chantry Island is a small patch of land surrounded by a small dyke, giving the impression that it is an Island. It is located in the grounds of the All Saints Pastoral centre, part of the Archdiocese of Westminster, in London Colney,… … Wikipedia
Chantry — • The endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of choir member in a… … Catholic encyclopedia
chantry — noun a) An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people b) A chapel set up for this purpose … Wiktionary
Chantry — Orig. the endowment of a priest to offer up prayers for a particular person after their death; later a chapel or altar endowed for the saying of prayers and singing of mass for its founder. They remained popular until suppressed in 1545 in the… … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
chantry — chan·try || tʃɑËntrɪ n. money given to a priest for the saying of Mass for the soul of a person or persons; chapel for the saying of Mass … English contemporary dictionary
chantry — n. chapel, priest or endowment for singing masses … Dictionary of difficult words
