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† preˈpositure, præ- Obs.
[ad. late L. præpositūra the office of an overseer, in med.L. in eccl. sense, f. præpositus: see præpositus and -ure.]
The office of a præpositus or provost of a collegiate church or priory.
a1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 34 The tyme of a ȝere turnyed abowte, succedid in-to the prepositure and the dignyte of the priore of this new plantacioun. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 280 Which dignitie is tied to the Prepositure of Bruges Church. a1641Bedell in Fuller's Abel Rediv., Erasmus (1867) I. 82 In the interim he sent him a collation to the præpositure of Daventry. 1758Lowth Life of Wykeham i. 28 The King gave him..the Prepositure of Wells with the Prebend annexed. |