præcentrix

A form of precentrix — A female precentor.

Meanings

nounpræcentrix (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralobsoleteObsolete form of precentrix.
    1 more example

    Many a writer of the middle ages refers to the exquisite singing of the nuns, who, under the superintendence of the præcentrix, occupied their respective stalls, which were opposite each other, and the service was chanted by alternative choirs, the præcentrix, who occupied the stall opposite the superior, leading, just as the precentor leads in cathedrals.

    1869, The British Quarterly Review, Hodder and Stoughton, volume L, pages 54-55
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