prebend (prebend)

[ Many noblemen and gentlemen's sons had prebends given them on this pretence, that they intended to fit themselves by study for entering into orders; but they kept them, and never advanced in their studies. Lords ' Journals, quoted in R. W. Dixon's Hist. Church of [Eng., xxi., note. To each [canon] was a igned.. a decent provision, called a prebend , for the support of himself and his house Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii. 83. IMG:content-0809.png:[blocks in formation] Another writes to desire that I would prevail on the Archbishop of Dublin to give him the best prebend of St. Patrick's. Swift , Letter, Sept. 30, 1735. Deaneries and prebends may become void, like a bishopric, by death, by deprivation, or by resignation to either the king or the bishop. Black stone , Com., I. xi. prebendal (preb'en-dal), a. [ IMG:content-0810.png:[blocks in formation] pre cardiac (pre-kär'di-ak), a. fore, + Gr. καρδία, heart: see cardiac.] Situated in front of the heart that is, cephalad of the heart. Compare precordial.