commendams

King of France, to erect all the abbeys of monks into secular commendams, and to give them to the officers of his court and his army; but this monarch, happening afterwards to be excommunicated and assassinated, the project was of course not carried into effect.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The vulnerability of Prideaux to disciplinary pressure amounts to this: that at a time when Laud was actively engaged in a wide-ranging campaign against pluralism in the Church, the doctor held, in addition to his professorship of sacred theology, four vicarages, a college rectorship, and three minor commendams.

Great Tew: An Exchange Ollard, Richard 1988

The other case, that of the _commendams_, was more important in itself and in the circumstances connected with it.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

In the Middle Ages such commendams were often given to students, professors, church diplomats, cardinals, and others (Concerning the abuses of this practice and the efforts of popes and councils to put an end to them, see COMMENDATORY ABBOT.)

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The decline of the order may be ascribed to the hard fate of the motherhouse, to commendams, and to the perpetual wars which ravaged

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

In this way the Pope can make commendams of four or more convents a year, any one of which produces a revenue of more than six thousand guilders.

Of the Matters to be Considered in the Councils 1909

Not merely an "unpreaching prelate," he rarely said mass; his _commendams_ and absenteeism were alike violations of canon law.

Henry VIII. 1908

Among the latter evils were the non-residence of incumbents, the inadequacy of the stipends of curates, and the commendams of bishops.

Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820

Their great charter, the right of election, was annihilated by appeals, evaded by trusts or commendams, disappointed by reversionary grants, and superseded by previous and arbitrary reservations.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

Their great charter, the right of election, was annihilated by appeals, evaded by trusts or commendams, disappointed by reversionary grants, and superseded by previous and arbitrary reservations.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765