residentiary
Americanadjective
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residing; resident.
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involving or under obligation to be in official residence.
noun
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a resident.
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an ecclesiastic bound to official residence.
adjective
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residing in a place, esp officially; resident
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subject to an obligation to reside in an official residence
a residentiary benefice
noun
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Etymology
Origin of residentiary
1515–25; < Medieval Latin residentiārius, equivalent to residenti ( a ) residence + -ārius -ary
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He has previously worked as chaplain and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; vicar of Christ Church, Southgate; and director of ministry and canon residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022
While there, she studied psychotherapy and was installed as canon residentiary on Oct.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2011
And if you show us a little Miss Butterfly, beautiful to the finger-ends, do we not fall in love with her at least as unaffectedly as if we were canons residentiary or rural deans?
From Philistia by Allen, Grant
The Reverend Aylmer Majendie had become a canon residentiary of Chichester and had been succeeded as vicar by the Reverend L. M.
From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton
In 1873 he received a residentiary canonry in Norwich Cathedral, and in 1874 Bishop Pelham appointed him Archdeacon of Norfolk, in succession to Archdeacon Blakelock.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
The deanery of St. Paul's is said to be worth a thousand pounds per annum, and each of the residentiaries about three hundred pounds per annum.
From London in 1731 by Gonzales, Don Manoel
Westward were the houses of the residentiaries; and the deanery, according to Milman, an excellent authority, stood on its present site.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
To the cathedral of St. Paul belongs a dean, three residentiaries, a treasurer, chancellor, precentor, and thirty prebendaries.
From London in 1731 by Gonzales, Don Manoel
Owing to the increased value of the corporate or common property divided amongst the residentiaries or stagiarii, residence was no longer reckoned a burden, but sought after.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Dimock, Arthur
The College never rebuilt its premises, and on the site were erected the houses of three residentiaries of St. Paul's.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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