Definitions for chantries

chantries chan·try

Spelling: [chan-tree, chahn-]
IPA: /ˈtʃæn tri, ˈtʃɑn-/

Chantries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1000 anagrams from letters in chantries (acehinrst).

Definitions for chantries

noun

  1. an endowment for the singing or saying of Mass for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them.
  2. a chapel or the like so endowed.
  3. the priests of a chantry endowment.
  4. a chapel attached to a church, used for minor services.

Origin of chantries

1300-50; Middle English chanterie Middle French. See chant, -ery

Examples for chantries

He built and endowed a (p. 352) chantry for the maintenance of three chaplains.

He is to live in the said chantry, and say mass daily in the chapel thereof.

It was founded in the 14th century, in connexion with a chantry.

"It's not my damned code any more than yours," broke in chantry.

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

Naturally chantry did not want his friends' boots havocking upon it.

He rebuilt the chapel of the Palace and founded a chantry in it.

chantry let him do it, though some imperceptible inch of his body winced.

He will probably never know why chantry, just then, began to be amiable.

The parishioners since gave it up as chantry land, and wronged themselves.

Word Value for chantries
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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