单词 | portionary |
释义 | portionaryn.adj. Christian Church. Now historical. A. n. Any one of two or more incumbents who shared the duties and revenues of a benefice; = portioner n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has one > who shares revenues with another portionary1548 portionist1630 portioner1670 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §3 That all and everie person..shall paye their tythes for thincrease of the saide cattell so goinge in the saide waste or common, to the parson vicar proprietorie porcyonarie owner or other their fermors. 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 788 That in Cathedrall Churches all the Canons and Portionaries shall be Priests, Deacons, or Subdeacons. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Wolverhampton In this p. K. Edgar founded a chapel of 8 portionaries, the chief of whom he made patron to them all. 1935 D. Attwater Catholic Church in Mod. Wales i. 10 A few in the north survived as sorts of colleges of secular canons (sometimes the portionaries and even ‘abbots’ were laymen). 1995 Music & Lett. 76 326 The cotidiane was..established..by the administration of the church, that is, by the two portionaries and the three kerkmeesters responsible for [etc.]. B. adj. Relating to or designating a benefice in which the duties and revenues could be shared among two or more incumbents. ΚΠ 1886 A. N. Palmer in Archæologia Cambrensis 5th Ser. 3 175 The priests themselves, to whom these ‘portions’ were severally assigned, may then be called ‘comportioners’, and the churches in connection with which this arrangement subsisted ‘portionary churches’. 1954 Eng. Hist. Rev. 69 95 Problems..such as the Welsh portionary churches and system of patronage. 1996 S. C. Townley in Hist. County of Oxford XIII. 49/1 The arrangement took full effect in 1260–1, after which three portionary vicars were presented in the usual way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1548 |
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