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Definition of precentor in English: precentornoun prɪˈsɛntəprəˈsɛn(t)ər 1A person who leads a congregation in its singing or (in a synagogue) prayers. （基督教礼拜会的）领唱者，（犹太教堂）祈祷领诵人 Example sentencesExamples - He explains that his wife's grandfather was a Gaelic precentor who led the singing of the psalms in Skye.
- Line-singing is an ancient form of worship where a precentor, or leader, sings the first line of a psalm and the congregation responds, finishing off the verse.
- It is said that when one of the incumbent ministers asked his superiors for an additional bathroom for the house, he was given the choice of that or the services of a precentor (praise leader) for the church.
- If so, how are they different from a precentor standing out from his choir?
- Synagogues began… to appoint official precentors, part of whose duty it was to compose poetical additions to the liturgy on special Sabbaths and festivals.
- 1.1 A minor canon who administers the musical life of a cathedral.
（负责大教堂音乐的）下级教士 Example sentencesExamples - Exeter's was built in 1286 by the cathedral dean as an act of amends for his alleged involvement in the murder of his deputy, the cathedral precentor three years earlier.
- The post-Reformation choir was usually split into two antiphonal groups: cantoris on the precentor's side and decani opposite on the dean's side.
- In the English dissenting churches and the Presbyterian churches of Scotland, which until the later 19th century had no organs, the precentor was an important official.
- For instance, Linacre, the personal physician of Henry VIII, had the been rector of four parishes, a canon at three cathedrals and precentor at York Minster.
Derivativesverb prɪˈsɛntpriˈsɛnt [with object]Lead the singing of (a choir or congregation) the music teacher precents the line at Back Free Church each week Example sentencesExamples - He says ‘precenting the line’ - the traditional unaccompanied singing of psalms in Gaelic in the Presbyterian churches in the Hebrides - is one of the predecessors of ‘lining out’, still practised in black churches in the South.
- Today metrical psalms, sung slowly, ornamentally and with precenting, are used only in Gaelic services in Presbyterian churches, and only in the Western Isles on a regular basis.
- Surveying the black and white faces in Sprague Hall at Yale University in Connecticut is the music teacher who precents the line at Back Free Church on Lewis each week, thousands of miles away.
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OriginEarly 17th century: from French précenteur or Latin praecentor, from praecent- 'sung before', from the verb praecinere, from prae 'before' + canere 'sing'. Rhymesassenter, cementer, centre (US center), concentre (US concenter), dissenter, enter, eventer, fermenter (US fermentor), fomenter, frequenter, inventor, lamenter, magenta, placenta, polenta, presenter, preventer, repenter, tenter, tormentor Definition of precentor in US English: precentornounprəˈsen(t)ərprəˈsɛn(t)ər A person who leads a congregation in its singing or (in a synagogue) prayers. （基督教礼拜会的）领唱者，（犹太教堂）祈祷领诵人 Example sentencesExamples - If so, how are they different from a precentor standing out from his choir?
- Synagogues began… to appoint official precentors, part of whose duty it was to compose poetical additions to the liturgy on special Sabbaths and festivals.
- It is said that when one of the incumbent ministers asked his superiors for an additional bathroom for the house, he was given the choice of that or the services of a precentor (praise leader) for the church.
- Line-singing is an ancient form of worship where a precentor, or leader, sings the first line of a psalm and the congregation responds, finishing off the verse.
- He explains that his wife's grandfather was a Gaelic precentor who led the singing of the psalms in Skye.
OriginEarly 17th century: from French précenteur or Latin praecentor, from praecent- ‘sung before’, from the verb praecinere, from prae ‘before’ + canere ‘sing’. |