单词 | petty canon |
释义 | petty canonn. Anglican Church. Now historical. A member of the clergy who assists with the daily services of a cathedral but is not a member of the chapter; = minor canon n. See also petit canon n. at petit adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > minor canon > [noun] petty canon1530 domiciliar1761 minor canon1862 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/2 Pety cannon, uicaire. 1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 15 All other..canons, pety canons, vicars chorall, & clerkes. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 71 Thei..went in to the pettycannons and fowte there. 1633 ‘H. A.’ Partheneia Sacra 8 I will..speake nothing of those Pety-canons there and Quiristers chanting their Complines. 1641 R. Bernard Short View Praelaticall Church of Eng. 25 That the Vicars, Peticanons, singing men & boyes, with the rest be turned into Schollers. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 54. ⁋3 One of our Petty-Canons. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Peterborough Besides the D. and C...here are 8 petty canons,..1 epistler, 1 gospeller. a1833 J. Townley Illustr. Biblical Lit. (1856) 404 He [sc. Miles Smith] was afterward made one of the chaplains, or petty-canons, of Christ Church. 1873 R. Phillimore Eccl. Law 161 The two classes of petty or minor canons and vicars-choral. 1899 Dict. National Biogr. at Weaver, Thomas He was made one of the chaplains or petty canons of the cathedral. 1984 Past & Present May 100 This was a gild wealthy enough..to have masses for the Name of Jesus every Friday in the crowds of St. Paul's with the subdean, peticanon, six vicars choral, ten choristers and a chantry priest. 1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Dec. 2 In 1548 the house of the petty canons within the close of the late cathedral of St Patrick was granted the right to be converted to a hospital for 12 poor men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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