Word Meanings - SUBCHANTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

CATHEDRALIC
Cathedral.
PRECENTORSHIP
The office of a precentor.
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.
DEPUTY
1. One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
UNDERCHANTER
See SUBCHANTER
SUCCENTOR
A subchanter.
CATHEDRAL
The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair or throne.