Word Meanings - PREBENDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. Grafton.

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• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• INVESTITURE
  Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PREBEND
  praebenda, from L. praebere to hold forth, afford, contr. fr. praehibere; prae before + habere to have, hold. See Habit, and cf. 1. A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral
• PREBENDARY
  1. A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook. 2. A prebendaryship. Bailey.
• PRESENTIMENT
  Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
• PRESENTIATE
  To make present.
• PREBENDAL
  Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.
• INVEST
  To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town. 7. To lay out in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock. (more info) 1. To
• PRESENTIAL
  Implying actual presence; present, immediate. God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• INVESTMENT
  The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall. 4. The laying out of money in the
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• RE-PRESENTATION
  The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
• REINVESTMENT
  The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
• REINVEST
  To invest again or anew.