succentor

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  1. In music: One who sings a lower or bass part.
  2. A precentor's deputy; a subchanter charged with the performance of the precentor's duties in his absence or under his direction. Also subcantor, subchanter.
  3. An inciter. The prompter and succentor of these cruell enterludes. Holland, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus (1609). (Nares.)

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  1. from Late Latin succentor, an accompanier in singing, a promoter, from Latin succinere, succanere, sing to, accompany, agree: see succent.
 

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