单词 | succentor |
释义 | succentorn. a. A chanter who takes up the chant after the precentor, or who presides over the left choir. (Also allusively.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > succentor (left choir) succentor1647 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rev. v. 14) The Saints were the Precentors in this blessed Quire, and now they are the Succentors also. They began the Song, and so conclude it. 1697 O. Heywood Heavenly Converse in Wks. (1826) IV. 525 We find precentors and succentors in this blessed choir, saints above and saints below. 1817 T. D. Fosbroke Brit. Monachism (ed. 2) xi. 182 The Succentor or Subchantor presided over the left Choir; the Chantor began, and the Subchantor answered. ΚΠ 1656 in T. Blount Glossographia ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > chiefly in something bad maintainer?a1400 abetter1457 bolsterer1523 abettor1569 succentor1609 bettor1671 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. xii. 141 Paulus.. was the prompter and succentor of these cruell enterludes. 3. A precentor's deputy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > precentor > deputy sub-chanter1484 succentor1642 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > precentor's deputy sub-chanter1484 succentor1642 1642 in Chas. I. Wks. (1662) II. 230 The Bill for the utter abolishing and taking away of all Archbishops, Bishops,..Succentors, [etc.]. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 19 Cartwright..had the Succentors place in the Church of Salisbury confer'd on him. 1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 140 Walter de la Wyle was Succentor or Subdean of Sarum. 1865 Churchman 9 Nov. 1283 Mr. Precentor is to have a Vicar Choral to act as succentor or precentor's deputy. 1904 Times 17 Mar. 5/5 The posts of succentor and librarian at St. Paul's are not held by the same person. Derivatives sucˈcentorship n. the office of succentor. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > precentor > deputy > office of sub-chantry1492 sub-chantership?1537 succentorship1691 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > precentor's deputy > office of sub-chantership?1537 succentorship1691 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 19 In his Proctorship succeeded Joh. Maplet..and in his Succentorship Rob. Joyner. 1829 S. H. Cassan Lives Bishops of Bath & Wells 104 The Succentorship and the Provostship..were..suppressed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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