prebendaries

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of prebendary.
  prebendary

  noun

  a canon or member of the clergy who is entitled to a prebend for special services at a cathedral or collegiate church.

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prebendaries

Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here they were blessed and sanctified, and then the Dean of Westminster and his prebendaries in their copes of state carried the regalia through the cloister to the royal robing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry VIII. then refounded it for a bishop, dean, chancellor, twelve prebendaries, and other subordinate officers.

From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert

There they made their offerings, all of which went to the benefit of the prebendaries of the house, who were generally of the blood of the hypocrite.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

You had better send post cards to the prebendaries stating the exact hour," whereupon the verger turned to a gentleman standing by and said, "Post cards to prebendaries!

From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by Frederick Douglas How

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