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prebendary

WordNet
  1. (n) prebendary
    a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Prebendary
    A prebendaryship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) prebendary
    One who holds a prebend. A clerical prebendary is necessarily a canon. At present in the Church of England all resident prebendaries are by law styled canons, but the holders of disendowed prebendal stalls are still known as prebendaries.
  2. (n) prebendary
    A prebendaryship.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Prebendary
    a resident clergyman who enjoys a prebend, a canon: the honorary holder of a disendowed prebendal stall
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary LL. praebendarius,: cf. F. prébendaire,. See Prebend

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. præbenda, a payment from a public source—præbēre, to allow.

Usage in literature

JAMES MORTON, B.D., Prebendary of Lincoln. "Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854" by Various

Romer means the Prebendary Campbell, or at least his wife and daughter. "The Limit" by Ada Leverson

It is quite clearly the seal of a canon or prebendary, but as yet no one has discovered his church or his name. "A History of Giggleswick School" by Edward Allen Bell

He was ultimately made Prebendary of Asgarby, in the church of Lincoln, and died at Newark, on a journey, in August, 1683. "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by Isaac Disraeli

For the Selwynian period, the "Life and Episcopate" of the great bishop by Prebendary Tucker (two vols., London, 1879) is a primary authority. "A History of the English Church in New Zealand" by Henry Thomas Purchas

Since 1494 he had been prebendary of York, and canon of St Martin le Grand, London. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6" by Various

By F. C. Massingberd, M.A., Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Ormsby. "Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker" by Berthold Auerbach

He was made prebendary of Canterbury and professor of Arabic at Cambridge. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4" by Various

Prebendary G. A. CHADWICK, D.D., Dean of Armagh. "The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus" by G. A. Chadwick

By W. G. Humphry, B.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's and Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. "The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing