prebend means A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
prebend is pronounced /ˈprɛbənd/.
Etymology
From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
noun
- A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
- The property or other source of this endowment.“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.
- A prebendary.“c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
a lease of the prebend of Withington”
verb
- To bend in advance.“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.”