Sekirov Dictionary

prebend

/ˈprɛbənd/

noun 4
/priˈbɛnd/ verb 1
forms 3

noun4

Political patronage employment.
A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
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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. — 1885
(no longer used) A prebendary.

prebend

/priˈbɛnd/

verb1

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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. — 2006

forms

prebent · prebending · prebends

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