prebend
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Is prebend a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of prebend?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.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. (obsolete) A prebendary.Examples: "c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bend in advance.Examples: "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."
Definition source: Wiktionary