ˈportionary Obs. exc. Hist.
[ad. med.L. portiōnārius a canon's deputy in a cathedral, receiving half a prebend (c 1200 in Du Cange) (so OF. porcionaire 1442 in Godef.): see portion n. and -ary1.]
= portionist 2.
| 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 13 §3 That all and everie person..shall paye their tythes for thincrease of the saide cattell so goinge in the saide waste or common, to the parson vicar proprietorie porcyonarie owner or other their fermors. 1620 Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent viii. (1676) 734 That in Cathedral Churches, all the Canons and Portionaries shall be Priests, Deacons, or Sub-deacons. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Wolverhampton, In this parish K. Edgar founded a chapel of 8 portionaries, the chief of whom he made patron to them all. |