prebendary

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• Dr. Taylor had a good estate of his own, and good preferment in the church [1388], being a prebendary of Westminster, and rector of Bosworth. —  Life Of Johnson
• We can discuss when we meet in town what we further require and think necessary, and in the mean-time, I appoint you High and Puissant Intendant of all singing and humming societies, Imperial Violoncello-General, Inspector of the Imperial Chasse, as well as Deacon of my gracious master, without house or home, and without a prebendary (like myself). —  Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
• George, born in 1507, was made in 1518 canon at Merseburg, and afterwards prebendary of Magdeburg cathedral. —  Life of Martin Luther
• At the sale of the old lord's effects in 1776-7, this eagle, together with three candelabra, found at the same time, was purchased by a watch-maker of Nottingham (by whom the concealed manuscripts were discovered), and having from his hands passed into those of Sir Richard Kaye, a prebendary of Southwell, forms at present a very remarkable ornament of the cathedral of that place. —  Life of Lord Byron
• Corvinus. Paris_, 1671 In the Quare Impedit of Mallory, the distinction is thus expressed There is a difference taken between a prebendary and a canon_, for a prebendary is a prćbendo and nomen facti in respect of the maintenance given to him: but Canonicus est nomen juris_; and in our usual translations a secular is translated to a regular, but not e converso_, a regular to a secular, Palm 501_."--p. —  Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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