prebend
IPA: prˈibɛnd
noun
- (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
- (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
- Political patronage employment.
- (obsolete) A prebendary.
verb
- (transitive) To bend in advance.
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Examples of "prebend" in Sentences
- It has a barn, and a prebend storehouse.
- He also held a prebend in the diocese of York.
- He also held a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln.
- Aymer received a prebend in the diocese of London.
- He held the prebend of eldland in the diocese of London.
- He held the prebend of Totenhall in the diocese of London.
- He also held the prebend of Chiswick in the diocese of London.
- He entered the church and was provided for by a prebend at Zaragoza.
- He entered the church and was provided for by a prebend at Saragossa.
- In 1637 he was collated to the prebend of Willesden in the church of St Paul.
- "prebend" does not yet appear, neither do the distinctive names of the stalls.
- ‘And as for the prebend, after what has passed, of course you must accept it.’
- On the day after his return he received proper authentic tidings of his presentation to the prebend.
- In this manner the question of the prebend was discussed between them on the evening before he started for London.
- In Maronia pia, or Maronia felix, I know not whether, nor how long since, nor in what cathedral church, a fat prebend fell void.
- This very journey of his up to London would be most imprudent, if it should become necessary for him to give up all hope of holding the prebend.
- Within each colonial prebend tribal jealousies and differences were exploited by colonial masters to maximize political power and economic advantage.
- This community life becoming more and more rare after the end of the ninth century, each canon received his own share of the mensal revenues – his "prebend".
- Such an occasion had now come, and he had desired his sister to give the new Lord Petty Bag no rest till he should have promised to use all his influence in getting the vacant prebend for Mark Robarts.
- Luckily for him, this state of suspense was not long, for within half an hour of his leaving the breakfast-table, the footman knocked at his door — that footman with whom, at the beginning of his difficulties, he had made up his mind to dispense, but who had been kept on because of the Barchester prebend.