What's the difference between cathedral and succentor?

Cathedral


Definition:

  • (n.) The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
  • (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
  • (a.) Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (2) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (3) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
  • (4) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (5) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
  • (6) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (7) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (8) The cathedral is losing £20,000 for every day it is shut.
  • (9) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
  • (10) I would want to have negotiated down the size of the camp and appeal to those there to help us keep the cathedral going, and if that meant that I was thereby granting them some legal right to stay then that is the position I would have had to wear ...
  • (11) I think the fact that the movement has now become so public and widely supported gives it a resilience that means we can do this and it will make it very hard for border force and the government to make a move on these people.” There were also training demonstrations given at churches in Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide, while Christ Church cathedral in Darwin will hold a demonstration later this afternoon.
  • (12) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
  • (13) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
  • (14) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
  • (15) Relax on the bench at the foot of the cathedral, where Monet stood and painted his series of cathedral images.
  • (16) "I had received sufficient comment and concern from a wide circle of people, both within the cathedral and through the town and county, to have arrived at the opinion that your position is untenable," she wrote.
  • (17) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
  • (18) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
  • (19) People take pictures of themselves wherever they go, from cathedrals to airports to funerals , always the same face grinning at the camera.
  • (20) Other schemes include a plan for Paternoster Square beside St Paul's cathedral in 1987 and designs for the Royal Opera House.

Succentor


Definition:

  • (n.) A subchanter.

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