canonry
Americannoun
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canonries
plural
noun
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the office, benefice, or status of a canon
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canons collectively
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Origin of canonry
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It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry.
From Time Magazine Archive
After offering some Soviet advance brass a dinner at his canonry, complete with vintage port, he benumbs them with a conducted tour of his cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
On 14 May 1568, Tycho received a formal promise from the King, still Frederick II, that he could have the next canonry to become vacant at the Cathedral of Roskilde, in Seeland.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Even the long-promised canonry finally fell into his lap in 1579.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Having completed his studies in Rostock, and with his future secured by the promise of a canonry, in the middle of 1568 Tycho set off on his travels again.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
Gerald soon obtained preferment: he held three livings in Pembroke, one in Oxfordshire, and canonries at Hereford and St. David’s.
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
Another part of the bill provided for the suppression of such canonries or prebends as might fairly be considered superfluous.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
In Hungary, the crown appoints absolutely to all bishoprics, abbacies, and even to canonries.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
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.
From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes
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