prebendary

NOUN
  1. a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church
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How To Use prebendary In A Sentence

  • Inefficiently supplementary egotistical phone for business angolan you can ubiety on your prebendary to devitalisation a bailee from dichromacy in and trephination your niff. Rational Review
  • To this the dean assented, but alleged that contests on such a subject would be unseemly; to which rejoined a meagre little doctor, one of the cathedral prebendaries, that the contest must be all on the side of Mr. Slope if every prebendary were always there ready to take his own place in the pulpit. Barchester Towers
  • His father the prebendary had not said this in so many words, but had he done so, he could not have signified it more plainly. Barchester Towers
  • “The bishop would do anything for him,” said the little prebendary. Barchester Towers
  • ‘I remember it as well as if it was yesterday, and old Dr. Ball, the prebendary, with the carbuncles on his nose, saw it too!’ He Knew He Was Right
  • Eleanor was very much afraid that Charlotte would have darted out upon her, as the prebendary got out at his own door, but Bertie had thoughtfully saved her from this by causing the carriage to go round by her own house. Barchester Towers
  • The late Rev. Love Robertson, Prebendary of Hereford (son of the above George Robertson), was accustomed to use: Gu. three wolves 'heads erased arg., armed and langued az., which are the arms of the original stock of Strowan. Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851
  • This year is the 300th anniversary of his appointment as the prebendary of Dunalvin.
  • Bertie: and so the last adieux were made, and the prebendary led out Mrs. Bold, followed by his son. Barchester Towers
  • The Seward family cultivated an 'open door' policy at the Bishop's Palace, holding breakfast, tea, dinner and supper parties and musical evenings, to which many from the prebendary houses in The Close: The Addenbrookes, Smallbrookes, Woodhouses, Vyses and the Garrick ladies. Anna Seward (1742-1809)
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