Obs. 4–6. Also annueler(e, annuler, (annivoler). [Cf. AFr. annueler one who celebrates ‘annuals,’ f. annuel: see ANNUAL B 1.] A priest who celebrates annuals, or anniversary masses for the dead.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 459. In Londoun was a prest, an annueler [v.r. annuellere].
1401. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 95. Al these annuellers that syngen for a tyme.
1496. Dives & Paup., VII. xviii. 305. He may … lette his trauayle to hyre by dayes and yeres, as annuelers done.
a. 1528. Skelton, Image Hypocr., Wks. IV. 97. Then be ther annivolers And small benivolers With chantry chapleynes.
