[a. OFr. antiphonier, f. med.L. antiphōnārium: see ANTIPHONAR, -ARY.] = ANTIPHONARY.
c. 1370. Wyclif, English Works (1879), 194. Multitude of newe costy portos, antifeners, graielis, & alle oþere bokis.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prioresses T., 67. He O alma redemptoris herde synge, As children lerned her antiphonere.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 144/1. The anthyphoner on whyche he lerned them is yet there.
1570. Grindal, Rem. (1843), 135. That antiphoners, mass books … be utterly defaced, rent, and abolished.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Antiphony, Among the number of ecclesiastical books formerly used … we meet with antiphoners or antiphonaries.
1823. Scott, Peveril, 202. Proper priest’s trappings—antiphoners, missals, and copes.
