Prebendary

Quick meaning: Prebendary is a noun meaning An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.

Meaning

An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.
2. 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.

Example Sentences

The great church, the residences of the dean and the two prebendaries, the choir and its appurtenances, were all intact and in working order.

While in the cloth, all clerics, regardless of social origins, were members of privileged class, exempt from corvée and taxes and sharing the government’s prebendary benefices of land and conscript labor.

This is at least a third of the way up the career path to being a saint. Conscientious men (and women for that matter) often hear a sort of susurration in their ears when they achieve this prebendary status.

Among the prebendaries have been men eminent for their learning and piety: as Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Winchester, Dr. Sherlock, Archdeacon Paley, and the Rev. William Beloe, B.D. well known by his translation of Herodotus.

Word Forms

• prebendaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prebendaryship, canonry, canon, provost, vicar choral, archprelate.

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