Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Blyth's classification (1849), the fourth order of birds, including the restricted Passerinæ, or the Passerinæ of Cuvier divested of all their heterogeneous elements: it was thus equivalent to the order Passeres of modern naturalists. See Cantatores, Oscines, and Passeres.
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In Christian antiquity, it is true, especially among the Greek Christians, we meet with many subordinate functionaries, e.g. singers ( "cantores", or "confessores"); "parabolani", who cared for the sick; "copiatæ" (fossores), or sextons who buried the dead;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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He is thought by some biographers to be the ‘Ioannes Martinus’ mentioned by the 16th-century writer Jacques de Meyere as having two brothers named Thomas and Petrus, all cantores who came originally from Armentières.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Weerbeke was probably not the ‘Gasparo fiamengo’ who was one of the cantores secreti of Leo X in 1520–21.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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La poesía, ajena a cualquier influencia externa, continuó su viaje en su tradicional vehículo, es decir, de boca en boca y anidando en la prodigiosa memoria de vates, cantores y de los amantes de la poesía.
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Sung by the three cantores of the major seminary of the diocese of Haarlem The Netherlands.
Archive 2008-05-11 papabear 2008
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Here's a YouTube video of this Introit, sung by "the three cantores of the major seminary of the diocese of Haarlem The Netherlands":
Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008
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Here's a YouTube video of this Introit, sung by "the three cantores of the major seminary of the diocese of Haarlem The Netherlands":
Advent 1: bls 2008
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Indian cantores recited the liturgy of the saints, but they also whispered the names of the malevolent dwarfs with childlike faces and withered bodies who stole the souls of the living.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Indian cantores recited the liturgy of the saints, but they also whispered the names of the malevolent dwarfs with childlike faces and withered bodies who stole the souls of the living.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Thus the magister capellae came immediately after the cardinals, followed, in the order given, by the sacrista, cantores, capellani, and clerici.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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