Definition of Descanters

1. Noun. (plural of descanter) ¹

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Definition of Descanters

1. descanter [n] - See also: descanter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Descanters

desaturations
desault dislocation
desautelsite
descabello
descabellos
descale
descaled
descaler
descalers
descales
descaling
descant
descant on
descanted
descanter
descanters (current term)
descanting
descants
descarga
descemet's membrane
descemetitis
descemetocele
descend
descendable
descendant
descendants
descended
descendence
descendences
descendency

Literary usage of Descanters

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

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1831)
"This was the great theme of the descanters on the enthusiastic and unquenchable valour of the French mob ; but not one woid of all this was true. ..."

2. Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository (1852)
"He stands apart from the descanters on the invisible world, whom John Foster forcibly describes, " who make you think of a popish cathedral, ..."

3. England in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ...: A Dialogue Between by Thomas Starkey, William Forrest (1878)
"... such as ornamenting wearing apparel, procuring new kinds of meats and drinks ; singing men, " curious descanters, and devisers of new songs, ..."

4. Faith and Rationalism: With Short Supplementary Essays on Related Topics by George Park Fisher (1885)
"... and as John Foster has said, there are "descanters on the invisible world " . . . " from the vulgarity of whose illuminations you are excessively glad ..."

5. Makers of Song by Anna Alice Chapin (1904)
"In an age when Harmony was still an unexplored country, and learned descanters and students were framing laborious airs as a mason builds an important and ..."

6. Collectanea Relating to Manchester and Its Neighbourhood, at Various Periods by John Harland (1866)
"It is observable in this altar — (though it has never been noticed by any of the numerous descanters upon it) — that it has no focus for the sacrificial ..."

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