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chanterie1 (1155)
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chanterie1 (1155)

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chantarie,  chantrie;  chaunterie;  chauntré, 
(pl. chaunteres  YBB 14-15 Ed III 45)  
  FEW:  cantare 2/i,221b Gdf:  chanterie 2,58a GdfC: ∅ TL: chanterie 2,232 DEAF:  chanter (chanterie)  DMF:  chanterie  TLF: ∅ OED:  chantry n.  MED:  chaunterie n.1  DMLBS:  cantaria 262b / cantoria 263c / cantuaria 264a

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1 music (art of) singing: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  De tuz estrumenz sout maistrie Si sout de tute chanterie, Mult sout de lais, mult sout de note  Brut WACE 3698
2eccl.musicliturgicalsinging, chanting (of offices etc.): 
( 1311 )  ceo que taunt vaut come seisin de fealté scilicet orisons et chauntries et bais fez (l. benfez) de seint esglise  YBB Ed II xi 170
( 1397 )  pour les chaunteries et obitz suis ditz  Test Ebor i 226
♦lawliturgicalmusicobligation to sing masses as a service for lands: 
( 1278 )  la chantrie dé avantdit chapelyns cessa, par la resun ke le maner est hors de leur mayn  Rot Parl1 i 3
( 1310 )  pur la chanterie arere par x. anz, issi avowe il la prise  YBB Ed II iv 197
3eccl.archit.chantry: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  La dame ad ses chapelyns pur sa chaunterye  BOZ Lett 473
( 1329 )  une perpetuele chaunterie de vostre chapelle  GRANDISSON 236
( c.1388 )  […] founda une chaunterie […] en la eglise de […] a doner a un chapellein […] pur chaunter pur lours almes  Northumb 12
( 1417-73 )  quatre marcs qe sount payez pur une chauntrye en l’esglise de S.M.  Goldsmiths’ Reg Deeds 73r
4 name (used as a surname): 
( 1379 )  John del Chauntré  Family Names Chantry

See also:

chantable  chantelette  chantement1  chanteplur  chanter1  chateresse  chantur 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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