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precentrix (prɪˈsɛntrɪks) [a. med.L. præcentrix fem., corresp. to præcentor precentor: see -trix.] A female precentor or leader of a choir.1706 A. Bedford Temple Mus. ii. 19 He..made his Sister Præcentrix to the Women. 1825 Scott Betrothed xix, The abbess..called on her Precentrix, and desired her t...
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precentor
precentor (prɪˈsɛntə(r)) Also 7–9 precenter. [a. late L. præcentor a leader in music, precentor, f. L. præcinĕre, -cent- to sing or play before (a person, etc.), also to foretell, f. præ, pre- + canĕre to sing. So F. précenteur (16th c.), earlier precentre.] One who leads or directs the singing of a...
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Sempringham Priory
The other officers were the sub-prioress, cellaress, subcellaress, sacrist, and precentrix. The lay sisters were bound to serve and obey the nuns.
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Campsey Priory
In the Bishop's visitation, 27 June 1526, Barbara Jernyngham was her subprioress, and Margaret Harman, precentrix, went so far as to say that in 35 years
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Eadburh of Winchester
Osbert also reported that perhaps because of her excellence in the practice of sung prayer, she was assigned the role of precentrix at Westminster, although questioned the historical validity of Osbert's claim, stating that he might have meant that she loved singing so much that it seemed that she was like a precentrix
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García Fernández de Villamayor
The latter was still the abbess in 1286 when two granddaughters of the founder occupied the posts of prioress and precentrix.
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lay
▪ I. lay, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (leɪ) Forms: α. 1 laᵹu, 3 laȝe; pl. 3 lawes, 4 lauen. β. 3 lei-e, 3, 5 ley, 4 leye, laie, 4–5 laye, 4, 9 (dial.) lay. [OE. laᵹu (oblique cases laᵹe); the β forms may represent either an OE. *læᵹe dat., acc., or gen., or the ON. legi dative, legir plural, of the equivale...
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