Chantry Definition

chăntrē
chantries
noun
An endowment to pay for Masses and prayers for the soul of a specified person, often the endower: an earlier term.
Webster's New World
A chapel or altar endowed, esp. in the Middle Ages, for this.
Webster's New World

A chapel set up for this purpose.

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Other Word Forms of Chantry

Noun

Singular:
chantry
Plural:
chantries

Origin of Chantry

  • Middle English chanterie from Old French from chanter to sing chant

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Chantry Sentence Examples

  • The college is sometimes described as being different from other colleges in being merely a large chantry to pray for the souls of the dead warriors.

  • But it was no more a chantry than the other colleges, all of which, like the monasteries and collegiate churches, were to pray for their founders' and other specified souls.

  • The grammar school was founded by Dr Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College, in 1528, but as it was connected with a chantry it was suppressed by Henry VIII., to be refounded in 1551 by Edward VI.; it now takes rank among the important public schools.

  • On St Thomas's Hill, where Thomas, earl of Lancaster, was beheaded in 1322, a chantry was erected in 1373, the site of which is now occupied by a windmill built of its stones.

  • It lay afterwards under the Villiers monument, and in 1878 was re-buried in Henry V.'s chantry.

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