antiphoner
(ænˈtɪfənə(r))
[a. OFr. antiphonier, f. med.L. antiphōnārium: see antiphonar, -ary.]
= antiphonary.
| c 1370 Wyclif English Works (1879) 194 Multitude of newe costy portos, antifeners, graielis, & alle oþere bokis. c 1386 Chaucer Prioress' T. 67 He O alma redemptoris herde synge, As children lerned her antiphonere. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 144/1 The anthyphoner on whyche he lerned them is yet there. 1570 Grindal Rem. (1843) 135 That antiphoners, mass books..be utterly defaced, rent, and abolished. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Antiphony, Among the number of ecclesiastical books formerly used..we meet with antiphoners or antiphonaries. 1823 Scott Peveril 202 Proper priest's trappings—antiphoners, missals, and copes. |