canonicate
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In the January of the following year, Pope Benedict presented our poet with the canonicate of Lombes, with the expectancy of the first prebend which should become vacant.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
A republic that could afford to be lavish in all other expenses, limited their bounty towards him to the begging of a canonicate for him from his Holiness, though Florence had confiscated his father's property.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
A further examination of his fitness for the office was committed to the Provost Frei and two members of the canonicate, Utinger and Hofmann.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
Goes from Parma to Mantua and Ferrara—returns to Padua, and receives, probably in this year, a canonicate in Padua. lxxiii 1350.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
However, he did return to take possession of his canonicate at Lombes, and to lose possession of his peace of mind.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
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