canonicate
Britishnoun
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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 Campbell, Thomas
"To one of our canons, my son, who has had much to do with missions, and who, after long and painful apostolic labors, came six months since to repose in a canonicate of our abbey."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène
Goes from Parma to Mantua and Ferrara—returns to Padua, and receives, probably in this year, a canonicate in Padua. lxxiii 1350.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
However, he did return to take possession of his canonicate at Lombes, and to lose possession of his peace of mind.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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 Landor, Walter Savage
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