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From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.

• IPA(key): /ˈprɛbənd/

prebend (plural prebends)

1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
3. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete) A prebendary.
   • c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
     a lease of the prebend of Withington

• prebendal

• prebendship

• prebendalism

• prebendary

stipend paid to a canon

• Catalan: prebenda (ca) f
• Dutch: prebende (nl) f
• French: prébende (fr) f
• German: Pfründe (de) f, Präbende (de) f
• Italian: prebenda (it) f
• Polish: prebenda (pl) f
• Spanish: prebenda (es) f
• Swedish: prebende (sv) n
• Ukrainian: пребенда f (prebenda)

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Middle English pre-

English prebend

From pre- + bend.

• IPA(key): /priˈbɛnd/

prebend (third-person singular simple present prebends, present participle prebending, simple past and past participle prebent)

1. (transitive) To bend in advance.
   • 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators, page 14:
     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.

• perbend