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Prebend means (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral..
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/ˈprɛbənd/ · noun
(obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral..
He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington
For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.
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Prebend means (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral..
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He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
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