residentiary

• Some of them are held by non-residentiary Prebendaries, who never come near the Cathedral, and who have no duty except to enjoy their incomes. —  Sydney Smith
• This gentleman's diction contains so much clearness, force and elegance that I can not resist quoting him verbatim: “The residentiary buildings lie on the ascent of the contiguous eminences, whose projecting parts and bending declivities, modeled by Nature, display astonishing harmoniousness. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
• The Canon residentiary, and the Rev. the Prebendary. —  The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself
• The Reverend Mr. Morgan, canon-residentiary, also addressed his lordship, on the part of the bishop and clergy of the diocese; and, being charged, by the venerable bishop, to express his regret at being deprived, by extreme age and infirmity, of the honour of paying his personal respects to Lord Nelson in the town-hall, his lordship immediately replied that, as the son of a clergyman, and from having been bred up in a sense of the highest veneration for the church and it's able ministers, while he sincerely lamented the cause of absence, he conceived it a duty, which he would perform with the utmost willingness, to wait on his lordship at the episcopal palace. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II
• Amongst other sources of information are the lectures delivered in St. Paul's by Bishop Browne when a residentiary, and published by the —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch

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