Definitions for precentors

precentors pre·cen·tor

Spelling: [pri-sen-ter]
IPA: /prɪˈsɛn tər/

Precentors is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 691 anagrams from letters in precentors (ceenoprrst).

Definitions for precentors

noun

  1. a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.

Origin of precentors

1605-15; Late Latin praecentor leader in music, equivalent to Latin praecen-, variant stem of praecinere to lead in singing (prae- pre- + -cinere, combining form of ca

Examples for precentors

All writings of the church, or made for the church, came under the charge of the precentor.

I think it was the music, or the painted windows, or the precentor.

Directly the precentor begins, silence falls upon them once more.

The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit.

So much with regard to the duties of the precentor, as chief singer of the monastery.

And I'm no' the precentor; I'm no' the man, ye ken, that lifts the tune.

It occurs in Chapter cxv., Of the precentor and his assistant.

Since then the precentor's box had preserved its lonely splendour.

William of Malmsbury was precentor as well as librarian to his monastery.

According to Mr. Wodrow he was sometime also precentor at Finwick.

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