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 Landor, Walter Savage

A further examination of his fitness for the office was committed to the Provost Frei and two members of the canonicate, Utinger and Hofmann.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

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 Campbell, Thomas

He had obtained for him a canonicate at Verona.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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 Campbell, Thomas