prebend
Noun
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Noun
prebend (plural prebends)
- (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
- (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
- 1885, William Hunt, Aldred (d.1069), article in Leslie Stephen (editor) Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1,
- He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
- 1885, William Hunt, Aldred (d.1069), article in Leslie Stephen (editor) Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1,
- Political patronage employment.
- (obsolete) A prebendary.
- French: prébende
prebend (prebends, present participle prebending; past and past participle prebent)
- (transitive) To bend in advance.
- 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators (page 14)
- For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.
- 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators (page 14)
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