prebendal, a.
(prɪˈbɛndəl)
[ad. med.L. præbendālis, f. præbenda prebend: see -al1. So obs. F. prebendal (1493 in Godef.).]
Of or pertaining to a prebend or a prebendary.
| 1751 Chesterfield Lett. 11 Mar., Mr. Harte..has taken possession of his prebendal house at Windsor. 1759 J. G. Cooper tr. Gresset's Ver-Vert iv. Poems (1810) 535/2 No sleek prebendal priest could be More thoroughly devout than he. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings i, Close by, were the prebendal houses,..all venerable with age. |
b. prebendal stall, the stall of a prebendary in a cathedral; hence, the benefice of a prebendary.
| 1839 Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1860) II. 17 The matricidal hands of the metropolitan of all England..were in our own days irreverently laid on her prebendal stalls. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. II. vi. 9 He granted a prebendal stall at Wells to an Italian cardinal. |