Noun:

कैथीड्रल या कॉलेज के गिरजे की आमदनी का अंध जो सदस्‍य को वृत्तिरूप में दिया जाय,

prebend's Usage Examples:

He was rewarded with a prebend in the collegiate church of secular canons at Southwell, half of which he was allowed in 1191 to cede to his "nephew" Reginald.

He was also deprived of his prebend, probably as being a married man, before May 1554, and sought refuge at Strassburg and Frankfort, where he developed puritan and almost presbyterian views.

Map's career was an active and varied one; he was clerk of the royal household and justice itinerant; in 1179 he was present at the Lateran council at Rome, on his way thither being enter tained by the count of Champagne; at this time he apparentm held a plurality of ecclesiastical benefices, being a prebend of St Paul's, canon and precentor of Lincoln and parson of Westbury, Gloucestershire.

He declined invitations from Cambridge, but accepted from Archbishop Laud a prebend in Canterbury cathedral without residence, and went to England to be installed in 1629, when he was made LL.D.

In 1851 he was collated to a prebend in Chichester; and in 1853 he became one of Queen Victoria's chaplains.

in that year, and in 1541 he was appointed to the second prebend in the reconstituted cathedral church of Ely.

provided him to a prebend at Lincoln, notwithstanding he already held prebends at Salisbury, Lichfield, St Martin's-le-Grand and Abergwyly, and the living of Brington.

A prebend is practically a sinecure, and the holder has no cure of souls as such.

From 1848 till his death on the 9th of July 1888 he was prebend of Willesden in St Paul's cathedral.

He entered the church and was provided for by a prebend at Saragossa.

Synonyms:

stipend,