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‖ cantor|ˈkæntə(r)|
Also 7 canter.
[L. cantor singer, agent-noun f. can-ĕre to sing.]
†1. A singer. Obs.
1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 4 A Cantor, who doth..sing those things, which the Musitian..doth set downe. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Ballad-monger, 18 Stanza's, which halt and hobble as lamely as that one-legg'd cantor that sings them. 1656Blount Glossogr., Cantor, a singer.
2. He whose duty it is to lead the singing in a church; a precentor.
1538Leland Itin. V. 26 The Cantor of S. Davids. 1662Fuller Worthies iii. 155 Being Canter of that Church. a1789Burney Hist. Mus. (ed. 2) III. ii. 255 The Cantor or Chanter who directs the singing in Lutheran churches. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. vii. 176 The pillars where the Cantors stand during service. 1887J. Baden Powell in Ch. Union Gaz. XVII. 145 A prose consists of a chorus, with intervening verses sung by cantors.
3. = chazzan.
1893I. Zangwill Ghetto Tragedies 3 The quaint monotonous sing-song of the Cantor reading the Law. 1945A. Kober Parm Me 120 Cards which she had received from the rabbis and cantors she had interviewed. 1958Times 23 Sept. 2/7 A wandering synagogue-cantor.
Hence ˈcantorship.
1884Edin. Rev. July 227 [Bach's] appointment to the Cantorship at Leipzig. |