annate

plural annates

1. The first year's profits of a Catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the Pope.

   When he brings into the Commons a bill to suspend the payment of annates to Rome, he suggests a division of the House.

   2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 342

2. Scots lawThe half-year's stipend payable for the vacant half-year after the death of a parish minister, to which his family or nearest of kin have right under an act of 1672.