Precentor Definition

Precentor Sentence Examples

• The public praise used to be led by an individual called the "precentor," who occupied a box in front of, and a little lower than, the pulpit.

• The clergy went in procession to the west door of the church, where two canons received the ass, amid joyous chants, and led it to the precentor's table.

• The chief authority is the Vita Lanfranci by Milo Crispin, who was precentor at Bec and died in 1149.

• Map's career was an active and varied one; he was clerk of the royal household and justice itinerant; in 1179 he was present at the Lateran council at Rome, on his way thither being enter tained by the count of Champagne; at this time he apparentm held a plurality of ecclesiastical benefices, being a prebend of St Paul's, canon and precentor of Lincoln and parson of Westbury, Gloucestershire.

• In the English Church in cathedrals of the "Old Foundation" the precentor is a member of the cathedral chapter and officially ranks next to the dean.