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  • noun Plural form of canonicate.

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  • Györ with 14 canonicates, and that of Sopron with 5; there are also 8 titular abbacies, 6 provostships, and 4 titular provostships.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • The cathedral chapter, together with forty canonicates, forty-one benefices, nine colleges, twenty-five abbeys, thirty-four monasteries of the mendicant orders, and two convents were the victims of this act of secularization.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • This was so, not only in the case of bishoprics and monasteries, vacancies which were filled by Rome either by direct appointment or by papal confirmation, but also in the case of smaller church livings (canonicates, parishes, etc.).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • It has one cathedral, six canonicates, four titular abbeys, one formal provostship, forty-five deaneries, 490 mother churches, 391 dependent churches (

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • And first, which is a great point, most of the incumbents in the town parishes, in the three hundred collegial churches, in the small canonicates of the cathedral chapters, belonged to better families than at the present day. [

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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