canonicate
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Having, it is reported, a good thousand crowns yearly of patrimony, and a canonicate worth six hundred more, he might have attempted to relieve thee from slavery, by assisting thy relatives in thy redemption.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
In the January of the following year, Pope Benedict presented our poet with the canonicate of Lombes, with the expectancy of the first prebend which should become vacant.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
"To one of our canons, my son, who has had much to do with missions, and who, after long and painful apostolic labors, came six months since to repose in a canonicate of our abbey."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
Carrying that intention into effect, therefore, he went back to live in his native place with that brother to whom he had given the canonicate, determined that he would never more handle a brush.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari
However, he did return to take possession of his canonicate at Lombes, and to lose possession of his peace of mind.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
