Prebendary vs Vicar - What's the difference?
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An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.
* 1832 May 12, various authors, St Pancras (Old) Church'' in ''
* 1908 , Frederick William Hackwood,
* 1919 , ,
Pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.
* 1992 , Will Self, Cock and Bull
*:This is at least a third of the way up the career path to being a saint. Conscientious men (and women for that matter) often hear a sort of susurration in their ears when they achieve this prebendary status.
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.
* 1985 , Norman Jacobs, The Korean Road to Modernization and Development , University of Illinois Press, ISBN 9780252011207, page 224:
* 2007 , Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti , Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-3831-3,
* 2009 , Fred W. Riggs, “Bureaucratic Links between Administration and Politics” and “Bureaucracy: A Profound Puzzle for Presidentialism”, chapters 5 and 9 of Ali Farazmand (editor), Bureaucracy and Administration , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8247-2369-9,
In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
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A person acting on behalf of, or is representing another person.
As nouns the difference between prebendary and vicar
is that prebendary is an honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church while vicar is in the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.As an adjective prebendary
is pertaining to the office or person of a prebendary; prebendal.prebendary
English
(wikipedia prebendary)Noun
(prebendaries)The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 19, Issue 546,
- Among the prebendaries have been men eminent for their learning and piety: as Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Winchester, Dr. Sherlock, Archdeacon Paley, and the Rev. William Beloe, B.D. well known by his translation of Herodotus.
The Annals of Willenhall,
- Wolverhampton church, dedicated to St. Mary, was a collegiate establishment, with a dean as president, and a number of prebendaries' or canons who were “secular” priests, and not brethren of any of the regular “orders of monks.” A ' prebendary , it may be explained, is one who enjoys a prebend or canonical portion; that is, who receives in right of his place, a share out of the common stock of the church for his maintenance.
- The great church, the residences of the dean and the two prebendaries , the choir and its appurtenances, were all intact and in working order.
Adjective
(-)- While in the cloth, all clerics, regardless of social origins, were members of privileged class, exempt from corvée and taxes and sharing the government’s prebendary benefices of land and conscript labor.
page 28:
- Following Max Weber, I define the prebendary''' state'' as a regime where those who hold state power live off politics. In addition to their salaries, the rulers and officials of the state benefit from the perquisites of office, either in the form of bribes or outright appropriation of public monies from the various government agencies and state enterprises for private ends (Weber 1968, 86-95, 206-9). Under a ' prebendary regime, a fraction of the middle or dominant class controls the state by allying itself with a supreme ruler or dictator.
pages 89–90:
- In the contemporary world prebendary' income for officials can be found in all third world countries where public revenues are inadequate to cover salaries at a sufficiently high level to enable bureaucrats to sustain what they regard as a proper standard of living. However, in societies where traditional bureaucratic practices are well remembered, and where a “formalistic” dichotomy between what is officially prescribed and what is actually practiced prevails, it is scarcely surprising if the real (' prebendary ) income of many, if not most public officials, should far exceed their formally prescribed salary levels.
vicar
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
A Kentish Lad, passage=For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.}}