residentiary

American  

[rez-i-den-shee-er-ee, -shuh-ree] / ˌrɛz ɪˈdɛn ʃiˌɛr i, -ʃə ri /

adjective

1. residing; resident.

2. involving or under obligation to be in official residence.

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noun

residentiaries plural

1. a resident.

2. an ecclesiastic bound to official residence.

residentiary British  

/ ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃərɪ /

adjective

1. residing in a place, esp officially; resident

2. subject to an obligation to reside in an official residence

   a residentiary benefice

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noun

1. a member of the clergy obliged to reside in the place of his official appointment

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• residentiaries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of residentiary

1515–25; < Medieval Latin residentiārius, equivalent to residenti ( a ) residence + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

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

Dr. Impey, the residentiary surgeon of Malwa, has just confidence in the indigenous drugs in use by the natives of the East, many of which are quite unknown in European practice.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

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 Canon residentiary, and the Rev. the Prebendary.

From The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself by Galt, John