chaunterie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chantre, chantry, chauntery, chauntre, chauntrie, chauntry, chauntrye, chauntuarye, chawnterye

Etymology

From Old French chaunterie; equivalent to chaunten +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)riː(ə)/

Noun

chaunterie

1. An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510:

     [...] And ran to London, un-to sëynt Poules,
     To seken him a chaunterie for soules, [...]

     [...] And run to London unto Saint Paul's,
     To seek an appointment as a chantry priest, [...]

2. A chantry (chapel set up for the above endowment)
3. (rare) The chanting which occurs during Mass.
   • c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63:

     [...] Fro þe kyng watʒ cummen with knyʒtes in to þe halle,
     Þe chauntre of þe chapel cheued to an ende; [...]

     [...] For the king was come with knights into the hall,
     And chanting in the chapel had chimed to an end; [...]

Descendants

• English: chantry

References

• “chaunterīe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-09.