prebend
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
Noun edit
prebend (plural prebends)
- (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
- (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
- 1885, “Aldred (d.1069)”, in Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, William Hunt, 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.
- Political patronage employment.
- (obsolete) A prebendary.
- c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
- a lease of the prebend of Withington
- c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
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Translations edit
stipend paid to a canon
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
prebend (third-person singular simple present prebends, present participle prebending, simple 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.