Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a residence, especially an official one.
- adjective Involving or requiring official residence.
- noun One who resides in a certain place; a resident.
- noun A member of the clergy required to live in an official residence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or keeping a residence; residing; especially (ecclesiastical), bound to reside a certain time at a cathedral church: as, a canon residentiary of St. Paul's.
- Of or pertaining to a residentiary.
- noun One who or that which is resident.
- noun An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having residence
- noun One who is resident.
- noun An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or having
residence (especially official residence) - noun A
canon who has an official residence
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Examples
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Moving to America, and by now styling himself as the Reverend Leigh-Pink, he became canon residentiary of Cathedral Church of St. Mark in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Archive 2009-04-01 Steve 2009
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This conduct, at the very outset of my career in the county, made me not a little popular; and the residentiary canon, who did me the favour to sup with me at the inn, went away after the sixth bottle, hiccuping the most solemn vows for the welfare of such a p-p-pious gentleman.
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These immobile people are presumed to be ‘residentiary adjusted.’
The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997
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But, as he imagined that in a warlike nation there would be more kings resembling Romulus than Numa, and that they would go to war in person, he appointed a residentiary priest as flamen to Jupiter, that the sacred functions of the royal office might not be neglected, and he distinguished him by a fine robe, and a royal curule chair.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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Amongst other sources of information are the lectures delivered in St. Paul's by Bishop Browne when a residentiary, and published by the
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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He had refused various solicitations from congregations, to accept of a residentiary charge, and had devoted himself to the missionary's work, where the presence of a spiritual teacher was much wanted.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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Dean's he might take with him a train of fifteen: two chaplains, two taper-bearers, five clerks, two vergers, and four residentiary canons; if to a lesser dignitary his attendants were to be fewer.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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It is also stated to be cordial, diuretic and cephalic, serviceable in the first stages of the dropsy, good in vomitings, fluxes, &c.Dr. Impey, the residentiary surgeon of Malwa, has just confidence in the indigenous drugs in use by the natives of the East, many of which are quite unknown in European practice.
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M.jendie had become a canon residentiary of Chichester and had been succeeded as vicar by the Reverend L.M. Astill, a man more of the type of Thurston and only too anxious to help his senior curate to become a vicar, and what is more cut £200 a year off his own net income in doing so.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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A canon residentiary of York named William Duffield had a library of forty volumes, as fine as Archbishop Bowet's collection, and valued at a higher figure (1452).
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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