How To Use prebend In A Sentence
- It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster. The Three Clerks
- Within each colonial prebend tribal jealousies and differences were exploited by colonial masters to maximize political power and economic advantage. Matthew Bergman: The Obama Manifesto
- In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
- The chapter of Vexiö consisted of dean, archdeacon, subdean, and eleven prebendaries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
- He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
- On the day after his return he received proper authentic tidings of his presentation to the prebend. Framley Parsonage
- A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy. Doctor Thorne
- He was appointed to the curacy of Brampton, near Wakefield in 1772, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln cathedral from 1786 until his death.
- 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. Framley Parsonage
- Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. Bleak House
