Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office or dignity of a canon.
- noun Canons considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The benefice filled by a canon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a
canon ; abenefice orprebend in acathedral orcollegiate church . - noun Canons considered as a group.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was known to be a member of the Warmia canonry.
Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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From 1527 to 1548 he held a canonry at Ljubljana Cathedral, from 28 December 1529 another at Zagreb Cathedral, and from 18 July 1531 the living of Laas near Kocevje, Slovenia.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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More useful was Le Sauvage's gift of a canonry in the cathedral at Courtrai, which Erasmus could exchange for an annual pension.
Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008
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A papal nephew was appointed to a vacant canonry at Lincoln and Grosseteste refused to allow the nephew to be appointed to the benefice.
10/01/2003 - 11/01/2003 John 2003
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Heinrich Schopenhauer, although deprecating these tendencies, considered the question of purchasing a canonry for his son, but ultimately gave up the idea on the score of expense.
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"I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my services, and my master has already assigned me one."
Don Quixote 2002
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Messer Antonio intended to make a priest of him, and in time would have inducted him into his canonry and other benefices, and all his instruction was given with this object; but
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I was in the service of the prior of Hyde Abbey, a lay clerk, when this mortal sickness came on me, and I took this vow of mine to spend my remaining days in the canonry of Aberdaron.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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The notary of Saint Elix deserves a canonry in the Chapter of Charenton; it is not the Marquis de Montespan who is dead; they have played a trick on you.
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