prebend

From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere.

prebend (plural prebends)

1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (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.

3. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete) A prebendary.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

• prebendal

• prebendalism
• prebendary

• perbend