Associations to the word «Prebendary»

Wiktionary

PREBENDARY, noun. An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.
PREBENDARY, adjective. Pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.
PREBENDARY, adjective. Of or relating to official positions that are profitable for the incumbent, to the allocation of such positions, or to a system in which such allocation is prevalent.

Dictionary definition

PREBENDARY, noun. A canon who receives a prebend for serving the church.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne