Definition of Cantoris

1. a. Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.

Definition of Cantoris

1. to be sung on the north side of the choir [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantoris

cantoned
cantoning
cantonize
cantonized
cantonizes
cantonizing
cantonment
cantonments
cantons
cantoon
cantoons
cantopop
cantor
cantoral
cantorial
cantoris (current term)
cantors
cantos
cantour
cantraip
cantraips
cantrap
cantraps
cantred
cantreds
cantref
cantrefs
cantrip
cantrips

Literary usage of Cantoris

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

1. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1865)
"344, in the " Hist. Litt. " de la France," vol. xv., p. xvi., this piece is mentioned. 456. Willelmi cantoris de Cumba Hymnus de S. Thoma. MS. Bodl. 509. f. ..."

2. The chorister's guide by William Alexander Barrett (1873)
"The opposite choir is called cantoris, from the fact that the Cantor or ... The directions decani or cantoris signify that the choir on the side named takes ..."

3. Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon by Abingdon Abbey, Joseph Stevenson (1858)
"... providentia cantoris débet inscribi ; parca- ... debent inscribi cantoris prudentia. De omni etiam conventione in capitulo formata et ..."

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