Etymology From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
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Obsolete A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2
Obsolete The 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:
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: