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preb·en·dar·y

 (prĕb′ən-dĕr′ē)
n. pl. preb·en·dar·ies
1. A member of the Anglican clergy who receives a prebend.
2. An Anglican cleric holding the honorary title of prebend without a stipend.
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prebendary

(ˈprɛbəndərɪ; -drɪ)
n, pl -daries
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a canon or member of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church who holds a prebend
2. (Anglicanism) Church of England an honorary canon with the title of prebendary
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preb•en•dar•y

(ˈprɛb ənˌdɛr i)

n., pl. -dar•ies.
1. a canon or cleric entitled to a prebend.
2. an honorary canon in the Church of England having the title of a prebend but not receiving a stipend.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.prebendary - a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church
canon - a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
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prebendary

[ˈprebəndərɪ] Nprebendado m
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prebendary

nPfründner m, → Pfründeninhaber m, → Präbendar(ius) m
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There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe 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.
"In that case, Antonio, thou mayest as well do us the pleasure of singing a little, that the gentleman, our guest, may see that even in the mountains and woods there are musicians: we have told him of thy accomplishments, and we want thee to show them and prove that we say true; so, as thou livest, pray sit down and sing that ballad about thy love that thy uncle the prebendary made thee, and that was so much liked in the town."
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From cuneiform tablets it appears that the prebendary system of Ekur was still functioning as late as Demetrius I (documents in Van der Spek 1992).
Ramsay's proverbs were also repackaged with a reprint of the paremiographical work of the seventeenth-century author and prebendary of Salisbury, Thomas Fuller, first published as Gnomo-logia: Adagies and Proverbs; wise sentences and witty saying, ancient and modern, foreign and British in London in 1732, just a few years before Ramsay's first edition (and quite possibly one of the collections Ramsay had in mind in his dedication), but reprinted in Glasgow 1814 as Thomas Fuller's Aphorisms of Wisdom; Or, A Complete Collection of the most Celebrated Proverbs, in the English, Scotch, French, Spanish, Italian, and Other Languages; Ancient and Modern, Collected and Digested, to which is A dded, Ramsay's Collection of Scottish Proverbs.
Apart from Milner's main ecclesiastical historical contribution to the Reformation debate, The History Civil and Ecclesiastical & Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester (Winchester, 1809), sometime between 1830 and 1847 Mullock also obtained a copy of his Letters to a Prebendary, Being an Answer to Refections on Popery, by the Rev.
This Pasfield is Zachariah Pasfield, and he was not a stationer but a Prebendary of St Paul's.
I answere that Basilius magnus hath truly said that fortune and chance are heathen mens wordes, wyth the signification wherof the mindes of the godly ought not to be occupied." (43) John Veron, a French preacher appointed prebendary of St.
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