chantrychan‧try /ˈtʃɑːntri $ ˈtʃæn-/ (also ˈchantry ˌchapel) noun (plural chantries) [countable] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINchantry
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French chanterie ‘singing’, from chanter; ➔ CHANT1EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- Apart from infrequent exceptions such as these, chantry priests were indistinguishable from parish chaplains.
- But all the endowments which funded chantries were confiscated at Easter 1548 and vested in the Crown.
- Even more important is the testimony of the fifteenth-century Warwick chantry priest John Rous, who died in 1491.
- He is remembered also for his work on the manor house at Clyst, where he endowed a chantry chapel.
- Hundreds of chantries and lay fraternities were established with this as their major function.
- It is believed that it was built as a chantry chapel in memory of Robert de Tattershall who died in 1121.
- On stylistic grounds Vertue may also be credited with the design of Lupton's chantry in Eton College chapel.
- Similarly, comparatively few chantries were re-established by pious benefactors, and endowments for masses failed to recover to their pre-Reformation level.
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