chaunterie

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French chaunterie; equivalent to chaunten +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)riː(ə)/

Noun

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chaunterie

  1. An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510:
      [...] And ran to London, un-to sëynt Poules,
      To seken him a chaunterie for soules,
      [...]
      [...] And run to London unto Saint Paul's,
      To seek an appointment as a chantry priest, [...]
  2. A chantry (chapel set up for the above endowment)
  3. (rare) The chanting which occurs during Mass.
    • c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63:
      [...] Fro þe kyng watʒ cummen with knyʒtes in to þe halle,
      Þe chauntre of þe chapel cheued to an ende;
      [...]
      [...] For the king was come with knights into the hall,
      And chanting in the chapel had chimed to an end; [...]

Descendants

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  • English: chantry

References

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