chaunterie
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French chaunterie; equivalent to chaunten + -erie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchaunterie
- 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, [...]
- [...] And run to London unto Saint Paul's,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510:
- 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; [...]
- [...] For the king was come with knights into the hall,
- c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63:
Descendants
edit- English: chantry
References
edit- “chaunterīe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-09.