prebend

From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.

prebend (plural prebends)

1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
   • 1885, “Aldred (d.1069)”, in Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, William Hunt, Volume 1:

     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. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete) A prebendary.
   • c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby

     a lease of the prebend of Withington

• prebendal

• prebendalism
• prebendary

pre- +‎ bend

prebend (third-person singular simple present prebends, present participle prebending, simple past and past participle prebent)

1. (transitive) To bend in advance.
   • 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators, page 14:

     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.

• perbend