a. [ad. med.L. cursālis, f. cursus course: see -AL.] Of or belonging to a course; applied to certain canons of St. Asaph’s and prebendaries of St. David’s Cathedral in Wales.
According to some, because originally their prebends were annually changed by course or rotation: Jones & Freeman, Hist. St. David’s, 313. Others would refer it to the ‘Cursus, officium Ecclesiasticum, seu series Orationum, Psalmorum, Hymnorum, et cæterarum precationum, quæ quotidie in Ecclesia decantatur’ (Du Cange).
1872. M. E. C. Walcott, Sacristy, II. 84. The preachers of Canterbury and cursal Canons of S. Asaph.
1878. Clergy List, Cathedral Establishments, St. Davids; Prebendaries: 1st Cursal The Queen.
