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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread prebendary #101234 04/20/2003 1:40 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 From Harvard Classics, life of John Donne "Most of his old age was spent with his friend, George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, and with his daughter Anne, the wife of William Hawkins, a prebendary of Winchester." prebend n. 5ME prebende < MFr < ML(Ec) prebenda < LL praebenda, state support to a private person < neut. pl. ger. of L praebere, to grant < prae3, before + habere, to have6 1 the part of the revenues of a cathedral or collegiate church paid as a clergyman‘s salary 2 the property or tax that yields such revenue 3 PREBENDARY pre[ben[dal 7prc ben4d!l, pri38 adj. prebendary n., pl. 3dar#ies 5ME prebendarie < ML praebendarius6 1 a person receiving a prebend 2 Ch. of England an honorary canon with only the title of a prebend Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prebendary #101235 04/21/2003 12:29 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park so a glebe could be a prebendary (meaning 2)? seehttp://www.bartleby.com/61/70/G0147000.html there is a Glebe avenue in the bronx, it marks the old line of St Peter's (anglican) church's glebe. St Peters has an alter that was given to the church by Queen Anne. the current church building is new, but it is retains the old alter. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prebendary #101236 04/21/2003 2:06 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear of Troy: I used to drive over a Glebe Road in (I think) Fairfax, VA. I wondered where the name came from. glebe n. 5ME < L gleba, clod, lump of earth (in ML(Ec), glebe), akin to globus: see GLOBE6 1 a piece of church land forming part or all of a benefice 2 [Archaic] soil; earth; esp., a piece of cultivated land Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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