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canonry

[kan-uhn-ree] / ˈkæn ən ri /




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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

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

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

This valiant earl built, and endowed with secular canonries, a stately church, as a repository for the relics of St. Wereburge, which afterwards became the cathedral.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

The establishment of this church, founded entirely at the private expense of the Count de Grignan's ancestors, was very rich, and consisted of a deanery, twenty-one canonries, and a numerous and well-appointed choir.

From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes

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

The Mastership, still in the gift of the Archbishop, is at present held with one of the canonries, and the cure of souls is discharged by a non-resident chaplain.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

Another part of the bill provided for the suppression of such canonries or prebends as might fairly be considered superfluous.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge




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