Canonry

Word CANONRY
Character 7
Hyphenation can on ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Canonry"

What do we mean by canonry?

The office or dignity of a canon. noun

Canons considered as a group. noun

The benefice filled by a canon. noun

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon. noun plural

The office of a canon; a benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. noun

Canons considered as a group. noun

The office of a canon; a benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

Canons considered as a group.

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The word "canonry" in example sentences

He was known to be a member of the Warmia canonry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends. ❋ Lu (2009)

From 1527 to 1548 he held a canonry at Ljubljana Cathedral, from 28 December 1529 another at Zagreb Cathedral, and from 18 July 1531 the living of Laas near Kocevje, Slovenia. ❋ Lu (2009)

More useful was Le Sauvage's gift of a canonry in the cathedral at Courtrai, which Erasmus could exchange for an annual pension. ❋ Nauert, Charles (2008)

A papal nephew was appointed to a vacant canonry at Lincoln and Grosseteste refused to allow the nephew to be appointed to the benefice. ❋ John (2003)

Heinrich Schopenhauer, although deprecating these tendencies, considered the question of purchasing a canonry for his son, but ultimately gave up the idea on the score of expense. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my services, and my master has already assigned me one." ❋ Unknown (2002)

Messer Antonio intended to make a priest of him, and in time would have inducted him into his canonry and other benefices, and all his instruction was given with this object; but ❋ Unknown (2002)

I was in the service of the prior of Hyde Abbey, a lay clerk, when this mortal sickness came on me, and I took this vow of mine to spend my remaining days in the canonry of Aberdaron. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1984)

He was a select preacher at Oxford in 1895-1897, and at Cambridge in 1900; he received a canonry in ❋ Various (N/A)

In June 1906 he was preferred to a canonry at Westminster, and when in December he resigned the wardenship of Toynbee Hall the position of president was created so that he might retain his connexion with the institution. ❋ Various (N/A)

Accordingly he determined to resign his canonry and spend his fortune upon the poor. ❋ Various (N/A)

The first is a survival, in a diminished form, of the ancient archdeaconry of the same name; the others are modern; the last is the only one which is held without a canonry. ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)

The notary of Saint Elix deserves a canonry in the Chapter of Charenton; it is not the Marquis de Montespan who is dead; they have played a trick on you. ❋ Various (N/A)

He loved juvenile parties when he could wear a coloured paper cap on his head or tie a paper apron round his waist, and probably his canonry had come to him through what he himself called his social gifts rather than by his reputation as a minister of religion. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The eldest, who is not yet twenty, is chief of a squadron in my army, and the younger has obtained a canonry at Cologne, from the Elector, my brother. ❋ Various (N/A)

Bologna; and, not content with giving him a canonry in his church, made him his archdeacon, grand vicar, and official. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

The next honour which fell to him was a canonry at Chester, and in 1873, less than two years before his death, he exchanged it for a stall at ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)

Whitchurch, Hants, and in the same year he was appointed by Lord Liverpool to a canonry of the cathedral of Christ Church, Oxford, when the degree of ❋ Various (N/A)

He had been Abbot since 1536, holding his canonry at Ripon at the same time, and after the suppression of the ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)

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