canonicate
Britishnoun
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Having, it is reported, a good thousand crowns yearly of patrimony, and a canonicate worth six hundred more, he might have attempted to relieve thee from slavery, by assisting thy relatives in thy redemption.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
In the January of the following year, Pope Benedict presented our poet with the canonicate of Lombes, with the expectancy of the first prebend which should become vacant.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
A further examination of his fitness for the office was committed to the Provost Frei and two members of the canonicate, Utinger and Hofmann.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
Giorgio spoke of this matter to the Pope, which was the reason that the bond was renewed, and afterwards it was proposed to exchange it for a canonicate at Udine for Giovanni's son.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari
A republic that could afford to be lavish in all other expenses, limited their bounty towards him to the begging of a canonicate for him from his Holiness, though Florence had confiscated his father's property.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
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