prebend — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. The property or other source of this endowment.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.

3. Political patronage employment.

4. A prebendary.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington

Verb

1. To bend in advance.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.

Noun

1. the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon

   Broader terms

   stipend