prebend

plural prebends

1. obsoleteA stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. obsoleteThe 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.

   1885, “Aldred (d.1069)”, in Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, William Hunt, Volume 1

3. Political patronage employment.
4. obsoleteA prebendary.

   c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington

present singular third person prebends · participle present prebending · participle past prebent · past prebent

1. transitiveTo 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.

   2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators, page 14