Obs. exc. Hist. [ad. med.L. archicantor (also in Eng. use), f. ARCHI- + L. cantor singer, chanter.] A choir-leader, precentor.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls Ser.), VI. 133. Iohn þe archechaunter.

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1577.  Holinshed, Chron., I. 123/2. Archchanter of S. Peter’s church at Rome.

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1682.  N. O., Boileau’s Le Lutrin, IV. 31. Drown’d in sweet Sleep th’ Arch-chanter roll’d at ease.

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1751.  Chambers, Cycl., Arch-chantor.

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1844.  Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. vii. 278. Arch-cantor of St. Peter’s.

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