canonry

• “He was known to be a member of the Warmia canonry.”

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• “In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends.”

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• “From 1527 to 1548 he held a canonry at Ljubljana Cathedral, from 28 December 1529 another at Zagreb Cathedral, and from 18 July 1531 the living of Laas near Kocevje, Slovenia.”

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• “More useful was Le Sauvage's gift of a canonry in the cathedral at Courtrai, which Erasmus could exchange for an annual pension.”

  Desiderius Erasmus

• “A papal nephew was appointed to a vacant canonry at Lincoln and Grosseteste refused to allow the nephew to be appointed to the benefice.”

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• “Heinrich Schopenhauer, although deprecating these tendencies, considered the question of purchasing a canonry for his son, but ultimately gave up the idea on the score of expense.”

  Essays of Schopenhauer

• “Messer Antonio intended to make a priest of him, and in time would have inducted him into his canonry and other benefices, and all his instruction was given with this object; but”

  The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca

• “I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my services, and my master has already assigned me one.”

  Don Quixote

• “I was in the service of the prior of Hyde Abbey, a lay clerk, when this mortal sickness came on me, and I took this vow of mine to spend my remaining days in the canonry of Aberdaron.”

  The Pilgrim of Hate

• “The notary of Saint Elix deserves a canonry in the Chapter of Charenton; it is not the Marquis de Montespan who is dead; they have played a trick on you.”

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