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prebend
/ˈprɛbənd/
noun 4verb 1
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2VERB + PREBEND
lease
PREBEND + NOUN
withington
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noun
1
A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2
The property or other source of this endowment.
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
A prebendary.
c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington
verb
1
To bend in advance.
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.
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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.
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c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington
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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.
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