Chantry: Definition and part of speech

Chantry

  1. n. A chapel or altar so endowed.
  2. n. An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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