prebendaries's Usage Examples:

Sometimes it was given to deans alone or to prebendaries in the parishes whence they derived their prebends.

"Sometimes it was given to deans alone or to prebendaries in the parishes whence they derived their prebends.

The cathedral churches are governed by chapters consisting of a dean, canons and prebendaries (see Cathedral).

The Choiseul party, which had gradually been reconstituted, under the influence of the queen, the princes, parlement, the prebendaries, and the trade corporations, worked adroitly to eliminate this reformer of lucrative abuses.

(1760) the body was received at the door of the Abbey by the dean and prebendaries in their copes, attended by the choir, all carrying lighted tapers, who preceded it up the church, singing.

It became early a custom for the prebendaries and canons of a cathedral to employ " priest-vicars " or " vicars-choral " as their substitutes when it was their turn as hebdomedary to sing High Mass and conduct divine office.

In the 12th century it was formed into eight distinct manors, seven of which were held by the same number of prebendaries.

Such persons were, literally, prebendaries.

In a cathedral the canons and prebendaries have each a stall assigned to them.