canonry
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After offering some Soviet advance brass a dinner at his canonry, complete with vintage port, he benumbs them with a conducted tour of his cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having completed his studies in Rostock, and with his future secured by the promise of a canonry, in the middle of 1568 Tycho set off on his travels again.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Even the long-promised canonry finally fell into his lap in 1579.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
On 14 May 1568, Tycho received a formal promise from the King, still Frederick II, that he could have the next canonry to become vacant at the Cathedral of Roskilde, in Seeland.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
With regard to the canonries, I suggested that he could find no difficulty, as he might always choose men who were employed in some great literary work.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
The deaneries are in the gift of the crown, canonries and prebends sometimes in that of the crown, sometimes in that of the bishops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
On his recovery, Geert de Groote resigned his canonries, gave his goods to the Carthusians and spent seven years in solitude.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
The said four canonries shall be of the number of those of the erection of the Church.
But he never took orders, the clerical tonsure being a sufficient qualification for holding canonries.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
