Associations to the word «Prebend»
Noun
Wiktionary
PREBEND, noun. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
PREBEND, noun. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
PREBEND, noun. Political patronage employment.
PREBEND, noun. (obsolete) A prebendary.
Dictionary definition
PREBEND, noun. The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.