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- noun Plural form of
canonry .
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Examples
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Their relics were deposited at Granfel, and were exposed in a rich shrine till the change of religion, since which time the canonries, into which this monastery was converted, are removed to Telsberg, or Delmont.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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This valiant earl built, and endowed with secular canonries, a stately church, as a repository for the relics of St. Wereburge, which afterwards became the cathedral.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Archbishop, is at present held with one of the canonries, and the cure of souls is discharged by a non-resident chaplain.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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These cathedral churches have in like manner other dignities and canonries still remaining unto them, as heretofore under the popish regiment.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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The establishment of this church, founded entirely at the private expense of the Count de Grignan's ancestors, was very rich, and consisted of a deanery, twenty-one canonries, and a numerous and well-appointed choir.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Registrarships, canonries and livings fell upon them in rich profusion, and the great prize of all, the registrarship of the Prerogative Court of the archbishop of Canterbury, fell to the luckiest of the lot.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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The canonries, having been founded by Archbishops of York, were in the gift of the see, or of the Crown when the see was vacant.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The obligation of residence was removed from the prebends; four new resident canonries were created, and the revenues of the prebends alienated.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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The chapters of collegiate churches, by common law, have the right of electing or presenting candidates for the dignities and canonries of their chapter.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It dealt with the distribution of parishes, the founding of certain canonries by the grand duke, and the establishment of a special ecclesiastical court in the Diocese of Münster.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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