Also 4–5 chanonry(e. [f. CANON2 + -RY. (The L. was canonia, F. chanoinie.] The benefice of a canon; the status, dignity or office of a canon.

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1482.  Caxton, Higden (1527), 305 b. He … hadde geuen his letyll newe a chanonrye … in the chyrche of Lyncoln.

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1687.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2307/2. The Seizure of the Canonries and Prebendaries.

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1691.  Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 81. This Tollard … enjoyed his Canonry but few months.

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1705.  Hearne, Collect. (1886), I. 104. His Canonry of Xt Church.

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1726.  Ayliffe, Parerg., 139.

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1862.  Mrs. H. Wood, Channings, i. 2. A young man who had but just gained his minor canonry.

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1886.  Law Times Rep., LIII. 702/1. The profits of a canonry of Windsor were alienable by way of mortgage.

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