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▪ I. advowson, n.|ædˈvaʊzən, -z(ə)n|
Forms: 3–4 avoweisoun, avoweson, voweson; 6 avoson; 7 aduouson, advouson, aduowsion, advousen, advowzen; 6– advowson.
[a. OFr. avoëson (in Anglo-Fr. advoeson, advowëson, advowson):—L. advocātiōn-em: see advocation (a doublet of advowson). Avoweson, beside being refashioned as advowson after L., was aphetized in 4 to voweson.]
The ‘patronage’ of an ecclesiastical office or religious house; the right of presentation to a benefice or living. (orig. The obligation to defend its rights or be its ‘advocate’; see advowee.)
1297R. Glouc. 471 Eni striuing..betuene a lewede & a clerc, vor holi churche thing, As vor voweson of churche. c1300Life of Beket 575 As for an Avoweisoun of churche. 1502Arnold Chron. (1811) 183 All such landis, tenementis, rentys, aduousons or other poscessions. a1556Cranmer Wks. II. 239 Mine old suit for the receipt of Mr. Benet's advowson of the Benefice of Barnabe. 1571Act 13 Eliz. xxix. §3 in Oxf. & Camb. Enactmts. 30 Services, annuyties, advousons of Churches. 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 4/1 Such thinges that lye not in manuell occupacion as..avowson of a churche. 1595Errington in Wills & Invent. N. Counties (1860) 253 The avoson of the rectorie of Elton. 1602W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. of Parallele 10 It is fructus aduocationis, and not the aduouson it selfe. 1634Peacham Compl. Gent. iv. 31 To be set off in hope of the next advouson (which perhaps was sold before the young man was borne). 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 342 Our Lord the King was seised of the aforesaid Advousen in time of Peace. 1663Butler Hudibras i. i. 236 As if Hypocrisie and Non-sence Had got th' Advowson of his Conscience. 1691Blount Law Dict. s.v., Advowzen (advocatio), a right to present to a Benefice; as much as Jus Patronatus in the Canon Law. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 6. 37 He has lately named me for a Living, of which he had the Advowson. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trum. I. 18 Advowson, the purchaseable right (purchaseable even by a Jew, Pagan or Mahometan) of controlling the souls of a whole parish. 1865Reader 9 Sept. 279/2 The traffic in advowsons has never been actually prevented in any country.
Comb. advowson-monger.
1660Quarles Div. Fanc. iii. lxxxii. 134 [The church] sustains th' extremes of cold and hunger, To pamper up the fat Advouson-monger.
▪ II. † adˈvowson, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. the n. Cf. to provision.]
To invest with the advowson.
1597Bp. Hall Sat. ii. v, Thou servile fool, why couldst thou not repair To buy a benefice at steeple fair? There moughtest thou, for but a slender price, Advowson thee with some fat benefice. |