choragusn.
/kɒˈreɪɡəs/ 1. Ancient Greek History. The leader of a chorus; spec. at Athens, one who defrayed the cost of bringing out a chorus. (Cf. chorus n. 1.)
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1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 202 (note) The office of choregus or chorus-master, was both honourable and expensive. Each of the ten tribes furnished one annually.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) V. 261 Demosthenes..had..undertaken to act as choragus—to furnish a chorus—for his tribe, at one of the Dionysiac festivals.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvii. 446 The comic chorus in that early time consisted of volunteers, without any chorêgus.
2. The title of a functionary in the University of Oxford, originally appointed (in 1626) to superintend the practice of music; he now assists the Professor of Music in musical examinations, etc.
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1626 Dr. Heather Enactment in Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) If no one shall attend the meetings in the Music School, then the Choragus himself shall sing with two boys for at least an hour.
1880 C. A. Fyffe in Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) In the year 1626, Dr. William Heather, desirous to ensure the study and practice of music at Oxford in future ages, established the offices of Professor, Choragus, and Coryphæus, and endowed them with modest stipends…no Choragus has either conducted or sung in the Music School within the memory of man.
1886 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 26 (Choragus). Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, M.A., D.Mus., Exeter.
3. transferred and figurative. The leader of a chorus, or of a choir; the leader of a band of any kind.
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1727 W. Warburton Crit. & Philos. Enq. Causes Prodigies & Miracles 93 (T.) [He affirms] that in this fantastick farce of life..the whole machinery is of human direction; and the mind the only choragus of the entertainment.
1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 212 Here he might be considered as the Choragus.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 86 In this..Sword-dance..Voltaire is but one choragus, where..Arkwright is another.
1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects at Broad Churchmen Colenso was at once elevated to the post of choragus by the bulk of the Broad Churchmen.
1901 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 403 Professor Haeckel, who is denounced in some quarters as the very choregus of materialism.
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