prebendary

  1. Noun.  An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.
  2. Adjective.  Pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.
  3. Adjective.  Of or relating to official positions that are profitable for the incumbent, to the allocation of such positions, or to a system in which such allocation is prevalent.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.