Definitions for precentor

precentor pre·cen·tor

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

Precentor is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in precentor (ceenoprrt).

Definitions for precentor

noun

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

Origin of precentor

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 precentor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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