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prebendary

NOUN
  1. a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church

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  • In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
  • He was appointed to the curacy of Brampton, near Wakefield in 1772, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln cathedral from 1786 until his death.
  • 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
  • III had a prebendaryship conferred on him by the Archbishop of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Reverend J.T. Becher, prebendary of Southwell minster, who objected to what he considered the too voluptuous coloring of the poem Fugitive Pieces
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  • Whatever the husband might feel, the wife cared nothing for frowns of dean, archdeacon, or prebendary. Barchester Towers
  • In 1741 he became a prebendary of York Cathedral, and married Elizabeth Lumley, a cousin of Elizabeth Montagu, but his domestic and family life was not happy, and of their several children all were stillborn but a daughter, Lydia.
  • So the Prebendary went into the house in a kind of dwam, as the Scots put it, and had no notion of what the Dean had to say; and when he got back to the garden he found his gardener smoothing the plot with a long rake, and raking in a lot of dead ants with the mould. Dr Duthoit’s Vision
  • At twenty-four he had been a deacon, at twenty - seven a priest, at thirty a rector, and at thirty-five a prebendary; and as his rectory was rich and his prebendal stall well paid, the Rev. Augustus Horne was called by all, and called himself, a happy man. Tales of all countries
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