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organista [ML] 1 organ-maker. 1303 magistro Johanni ~e comitis W. pro xv lib. stagni per ipsum emptis pro organ’ principis inde faciend’ ‥ vij s. vj d. KR Ac 363/18 f. 5d.. 2 player of musical instrument, esp organ or sim; b (w. ref. to Psalms). c1200 ego Willelmus de Wiltone, ~a ‥ Ch. Sal. 61; hic ~a, qui ludit ad organa WW; lyricines, cytharedi, fidicini, tympaniste, tubicines, tibicines, psaltes, ~e [gl.: portatyves] Whittington Vulg. 67; 1537 concedimus ‥ servienti nostro W. B. capitali nostro ~ae ‥ annualem redditum Foed. XIV 584.  b David propheta et ceteri cithariste et ~e Bacon Tert. 233. 3 one who composes or sings polyphonic music. ~e populares aures melliti gutturis organo demulcent Garl. Tri. Eccl. 97; tractus ille quandoque decipit ‥ cantores omnes quia nesciunt quandoque, quantum ascendit vel descendit nisi fuissent optimi ~e Mens. & Disc. (Anon. IV) 56; longa autem apud priores ~as duo tantum habuit tempora sicut in metris Odington 127; s1423 de institucione ~arum ‥ . duo sint ad minus ‥ stipendiarii cantores in ecclesia qui ‥ intersint misse Amund. I 106; 1437 quidam ‥ dum incensant altaria in ecclesia, extrahunt secum meliores ~as in diminucionem cultus divini Stat. Linc. III 366.

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