Meaning of prebend | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
   obsolete
2. The property or other source of this endowment.
   obsolete
3. Political patronage employment.
4. A prebendary.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

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