canonicate

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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 Campbell, Thomas

Having, it is reported, a good thousand crowns yearly of patrimony, and a canonicate worth six hundred more, he might have attempted to relieve thee from slavery, by assisting thy relatives in thy redemption.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

He had obtained for him a canonicate at Verona.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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 Campbell, Thomas

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 Hottinger, Johann Jakob