† preˈpositure, præ- Obs.
[ad. late L. præpositūra the office of an overseer, in med.L. in eccl. sense, f. præpositus: see præpositus and -ure.]
The office of a præpositus or provost of a collegiate church or priory.
| a 1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 34 The tyme of a ȝere turnyed abowte, succedid in-to the prepositure and the dignyte of the priore of this new plantacioun. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 280 Which dignitie is tied to the Prepositure of Bruges Church. a 1641 Bedell in Fuller's Abel Rediv., Erasmus (1867) I. 82 In the interim he sent him a collation to the præpositure of Daventry. 1758 Lowth Life of Wykeham i. 28 The King gave him..the Prepositure of Wells with the Prebend annexed. |