(n.) The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir.
(n.) The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rev Lucy Winkett, 46, rector of St James's Piccadilly, central London Before moving to St James's in 2010, Winkett was canon precentor at St Paul's Cathedral, where she survived open opposition when some worshippers refused to receive holy communion from her hand.
Synagogue
Definition:
(n.) A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
(n.) The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
(n.) The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.
(n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.
(n.) Any assembly of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(2) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
(4) They had come from across Israel to see Eyal Yifrach, 19, and Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frankel, both 16, buried side by side after funeral services at synagogues in each of their home communities.
(5) Settlers accepted the deal at a vote in Amona’s synagogue on Sunday.
(6) I go to synagogue and from time to time take my turn on security duty, just like Dan Uzan, who was murdered in Copenhagen .
(7) They had lots of children and several grandchildren.” Also killed in the same attack were Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, and Kalman Ze’ev Levine, 55, who neighbours said prayed regularly at the Bnei Torah synagogue, which was near his home.
(8) The pattern was similar in the Sydney hostage crisis in December and in Copenhagen in which two people were killed by a gunman outside the city’s Great Synagogue in February.
(9) I saw armed police at the door of the synagogue and then heard one of them shout: ‘He’s getting ready to come out.’ An Arab came out of the building, a man in his 30s.
(10) This was not going to change what takes place in your church, mosque or synagogue.
(11) On Monday morning Bernard Cazeneuve, France’s interior minister, announced that all synagogues and Jewish schools in France will remain under armed military guard for the foreseeable future.
(12) The synagogue or shul was the centre of communal life, and the centre of my life from three years upwards.
(13) In 1959, Taylor, who had converted to Judaism when she married Todd, married Fisher at a synagogue in Las Vegas.
(14) The conflict has fuelled tensions in France , with pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashing with security officers at a Paris synagogue on Sunday.
(15) However, after photographs of people, including police officers and firefighters, doing the salute near Jewish sites, synagogues and street signs, the anti-racism group SOS Racisme said it would sue anyone who distributed pictures that left no doubt as to the antisemitic nature of the gesture.
(16) However, he has failed to distance himself from groups and individuals who have posted photographs of themselves doing the quenelle outside synagogues, Holocaust memorials, Jewish schools and even at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
(17) There is a Muslim convert (a 25-year-old white woman), a deaf Jewish woman who chose to identify primarily as deaf rather than Jewish because her synagogue was unsympathetic to her disability, the gay adoptees, Chris Huhne .
(18) Members from the 350 Citizens UK member institutions, which include churches, mosques, synagogues, schools, universities, trades unions and community groups, are tackling some of the practical issues that need addressing, working out how to provide housing, school places, healthcare.
(19) A synagogue near the Bastille was under police guard on Monday after more than 100 youths chanting "Israel murderer" tried to storm the building following a march demanding an end to Israeli air strikes on Gaza .
(20) Think of the positive message it would send for churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples all over the world to become carbon neutral,” he said.