Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a prebend or a prebendary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
prebend ;prebendary . - adjective Having an associated prebend.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an honorary religious title granted by the state.
- adjective Of or relating to official positions that are profitable for the incumbent, to the allocation of such positions, or to a system in which such allocation is prevalent.
- adjective politics Relating to political
patronage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Harte is returned in perfect health from Cornwall, and has taken possession of his prebendal house at Windsor, which is a very pretty one.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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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.
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He held a prebendal stall in the diocese, one of the best residences in the close, and the two large rectories of Crabtree Canonicorum and
Barchester Towers 2004
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She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal stall in his hands.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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His rectories were inhabited by his curates, and he felt himself from disuse to be unfit for parochial duty; but his prebendal home was kept empty for him, and he thought it probable that he might be able now and again to preach a prebendal sermon.
Barchester Towers 2004
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He could not but feel, he said, that he had received the prebendal stall from the hands of Mr Sowerby; and under such circumstances, considering all that had happened, he could not be easy in his mind as long as he held it.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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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 2004
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But then, as to that house at Barchester, the dignified prebendal mansion in the close — might they not be allowed to leave it unoccupied for one year longer — perhaps to let it?
Framley Parsonage 2004
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Stanhope, who also fills the prebendal stall of Goosegorge in
The Warden 2004
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His father had held a prebendal stall at Ely in times when prebendal stalls were worth more than they are at present, and having also been possessed of a living in the neighbourhood, had amassed a considerable sum of money.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
yarb commented on the word prebendal
The clergy, too, were not forgotten in my charities. Lesser preferments were in my gift; everything up to prebendal stalls and collegiate dignities.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 8 ch. 9
October 7, 2008