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The chancel. Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen…

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

A handkerchief.

Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

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

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]

One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.

tervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

onastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

anery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.