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A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]

teenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

A leader of a choir; a directing singer. Specifically:

The office of a precentor.

eenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. --Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

A subchanter.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.

f or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.

The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]

The water thrush or accentor. [Local, West Indies]

A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.

wings black, and the belly white. -- Ragged robin. (Bot.) See under Ragged. -- Robin accentor (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin. -- Robin redbreast. (Zoöl.) (a) The European robin. (b) The American robin. (c) The American bluebird. -- Robin snipe.…

To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. Lucento slipped me like his greyhound. Shak.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.