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( kan -ta-re'ne,) B. 1602, styled "the Pesarese," an Italian painter, whose works are often mistaken for those of his great master Guido. D. 1648. Canta'ta, n. [From It. cant are, to sing.) ( Mus.) A is a very ancient city, but now much modernized, being well paved, built, and lighted. The cathedral is a noble pile, and forms a conspicuous object from whatever part of the city it may be viewed. It stands on the site of the cathedral anciently founded by St. Augustine, in connection with the monastery of Christ Church, established by Ethelbert, king of Kent, on his conversion to Christianity by St. Augustine, in 587. The oldest part of the present structure dates from 1184. The ancient celebrity of this cathedral is partly attributable to its being as sociated with the first establishment of Christianity in England, but more especially to the murder of its famous archbishop, Thomas A'Becket, at the foot of one of its altars, in 1170. This place subsequently became an object of pilgrimage, and the shrine of the sainted martyr was visited for centuries by devotees from every part of Europe. - Manf . Brawn. Hop-picking forms an important industrial feature of the surrounding country. Pop . in 1895, 23,125. Can'terbury, in Delaware, a post-village of Kent co., 8 m. S. of Dover. co. musical composition for voices, usually of considerable Can'terbury, in Connecticut , a township of Windham length and importance, and of which there are several kinds. It consists of an intermixture of air and recitative, and was at one time extended to such a length as to form a sort of small opera, but is now, however, ordinarily written for only one voice with a thorough ba , though sometimes for several, accompanied by one or more instruments. According to Du Cange, the word cantata was used in the Church as early as the year 1314 to expre what is at present understood by anthem , with which word it is still synonymous in Germany, cantatas being chiefly confined, among the Luther ans, to sacred music. Can'terbury, in New Zealand, a settlement founded by a committee of English Episcopalians in the N. part of the island, with Christ church for its capital, and Lyttelton for its port. Area , about 2,400,000 acres of a generally fertile land.