The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prebendal \Pre*ben"dal\ (pr[-e]*b[e^]n"dal), a.
Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a
prebendal priest or stall.
--Chesterfield.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a prebend; prebendary. 2 (context of an office English) Having an associated prebend. 3 Of or pertaining to an honorary religious title granted by the state. 4 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. 5 (context politics English) Relating to political patronage.
Usage examples of "prebendal".
CHAPTER XXI My Journey to Cesena in Search of Treasure--I Take Up My Quarters in Franzia's House--His Daughter Javotte The opera was nearly over when I was accosted by a young man who, abruptly, and without any introduction, told me that as a stranger-- I had been very wrong in spending two months in Mantua without paying a visit to the natural history collection belonging to his father, Don Antonio Capitani, commissary and prebendal president.
The son of the prebendal commissary called for me, and I found in his father a most eccentric, whimsical sort of man.
I answered, "I have been guilty only through ignorance, and if you would be so good as to call for me at my hotel to-morrow morning, before the evening I shall have atoned for my error, and you will no longer have the right to address me the same reproach" The son of the prebendal commissary called for me, and I found in his father a most eccentric, whimsical sort of man.