— discanter , n.
n. /dis"kant/ ; v. /dis kant"/ , n.
1. Also, discantus /dis kan"teuhs/ . Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
2. descant.
v.i.
3. descant.
[ 1400-50; late ME discanthus; see DESCANT ]