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

Noun Inflected Forms

• residentiaries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of residentiary

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

Example Sentences

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residentiary residentiaries

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.

The residentiary buildings lie on the ascent of the contiguous eminences, whose projecting parts and bending declivities, modeled by Nature, display astonishing harmoniousness.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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