How To Use precentor In A Sentence
- The family was liberal and religious: at home her mother had a kosher kitchen and the Jewish holidays were observed without any taint of fanaticism; her father was a carpenter and a shul yid (a Jew who went to the synagogue) whose fine voice led to his being a “baaltfile” (precentor). Vele Rabinowitz Zabludowsky.
- The south side is called the {48} "decani side" and the north the "cantoris side," as being, in cathedrals, the respective sides of the dean and the cantor (or precentor). The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness
- Thus in the ten-century rule of Cluny the library is called armarium, and the official who had charge of it armarius, while by an arrangement which was long and widely observed both in Benedictine and in other monastic houses, this armarius, or librarian, was usually identical with the precentor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- In 1460 we find him in the post of “succentor” or deputy precentor at Orleans Cathedral, where he became choirmaster in 1463. Archive 2009-06-01
- He states that he remembers an old beadle of the church which was called "Haddo's Hole," and sometimes the "Little Kirk," in Edinburgh, whose son occasionally officiated as precentor.
- And Brother Anselm the precentor, who acknowledged few disruptions other than a note offkey, or a sore throat among his best voices, accepted all other events with utter serenity, assumed the best, wished all men well, and gave over worrying. A River So Long
- In addition to the special members of a chapter already mentioned there are usually appointed the following, in order to secure well-ordered services: precentor, sacristan, cancellor, succentor, punctator, hebdomadarian. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- The unworldly Septimus Harding, precentor at the great cathedral, is drawn into a furious dispute about church corruption, his only solace being the sublime sound of the cathedral choir as its songs ascend to heaven. Ten of the best
- Keen to echo J F Bentley's vision, Thomas Wilson, the Cathedral precentor, sought Byzantium with a twist. Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
- The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit. Auld Licht Idylls
