Definition of Chantries

1. Noun. (plural of chantry) ¹

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Definition of Chantries

1. chantry [n] - See also: chantry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chantries

chanteuses
chantey
chanteys
chanticleer
chanticleers
chantie
chanties
chanting
chantingly
chantis
chantlike
chantor
chantors
chantress
chantresses
chantries (current term)
chantry
chants
chanty
chao
chaogenous
chaoite
chaolite
chaological
chaologist
chaologists
chaology
chaomancy
chaophilia

Literary usage of Chantries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"Dr. Crome was nearly burnt for abusing chantries in a sermon. ... With him died the power to seize the chantries, the power to issue a commission to enter ..."

2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"The great, though uncertain, Number of chantries. Vast was the wealth accruing to the crown by the dissolution of chantries. " Many a little,11 saith the ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The chantries Bill was in the main a renewal of the Act of 1545 ; but its object was now declared to be the endowment of education, and not the defence of ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The work of suppressing and despoiling the chantries, begun by Henry VIII, ... For the chantries were the grammar schools of the period—the incumbent ..."

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