precentorship

• a word derived from precentor.

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precentorship

Since his appointment to his precentorship, he has published, with all possible additions of vellum, typography, and gilding, a collection of our ancient church music, with some correct dissertations on Purcell, Crotch, and Nares.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

"It will cost me the precentorship," answered he slowly, "but I hadn't given a thought to that."

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I am very anxious about the precentorship: the archdeacon thinks it must go with the wardenship; I think not, and, that, having it, I cannot be ousted.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

He did not use it, as he is serving the precentorship ad interim, as I have said above.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

"He is at Lincoln; he has gone to try for the precentorship of the cathedral," Hetty announced.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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