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CHANTRY (Fr. chanterie, from chanter, to sing; Med. See also: chapel built out from a See also: church, endowed in pre-Ref ormation times for the express purpose of maintaining priests for the chanting of masses for the soul of the founder or of some one named by him
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It generally contained the
See also: tomb of the founder, and, as the officiator or mass-See also: priest was often unconnected with the parochial See also: clergy, had an entrance from the outside
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The word passed through graduations of meaning
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Its first sense was singing or chanting
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Then it meant the endowment funds, next the priests, and then the church or chapel itself
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