Word Meanings - CANTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• PRECENTORSHIP
  The office of a precentor.
• CHOIR
  The chancel. Choir organ , one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary
• CANTOR
  A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.
• PRECENTOR
  A leader of a choir; a directing singer. Specifically: The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. Hook. The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.
• CHURCHISM
  Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
• CANTORAL
  Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.
• CHURCHGOER
  One who attends church.
• CHURCHY
  Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
• CHURCHWARDEN
  1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table
• CANTORIS
  Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.
• CHURCH-HAW
  Churchyard. Chaucer.
• SINGERESS
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• MOUCHOIR
  A handkerchief.
• HIGH-CHURCHMAN
  One who holds high-church principles.
• BROAD CHURCH
  A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied
• LOW-CHURCHISM
  The principles of the low-church party.
• HIGH-CHURCH
  Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• FAIR-LEADER
  A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern