Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, same as subcantor, succentor, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl.) An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ chanter

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Examples

  • On his left walked the subchanter, on his right the precentor, armed with his wand of office.

    VI. Three Various Hearts of Men. Book VIII 1917

  • They remained nearly a month in the ancient episcopal city, strolling out in the gloaming through the lonely, grass-grown streets with their crumbling palaces of the time of the Council; floating with the current down the river Rhine along its forest-clad banks; stopping to look at the tiny houses with red roofs and spacious arbors beneath which sang the bourgeoisie, stein in hand, with the Germanic joy of a subchanter, grave and reposeful.

    The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

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