Chantry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chan=try

CIDE DICTIONARY

Chantry, n. [OF. chanterie, fr. chanter to sing.].

•  An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.  [1913 Webster]
•  A chapel or altar so endowed.  Cowell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Chantry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 an endowment for a priest or priests to celebrate masses for the founder's soul.
2 the priests, chapel, altar, etc., endowed.

Etymology

ME f. AF chaunterie, OF chanterie f. chanter CHANT

ROGET THESAURUS

Chantry

Temple

N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.