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prestimony Canon Law.|ˈprɛstɪmənɪ|
Also 8 præ-.
[ad. F. prestimonie (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. præstimōnium (781 in Du Cange), f. L. præstāre to furnish, etc.: see prestation and -mony.]
(See quot.)
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Prestimony, Præstimonia, in the canon law, a term about which authors are much divided... Upon the whole, the surest opinion seems to be this, that præstimony is a fund or revenue appropriated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. 1848in Wharton Law Lex.; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence prestimonial |-ˈməʊnɪəl| a., of or pertaining to prestimony.
1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. xx. 332 Some simple Benefices,..also Donatives, or Prestimonial Portions, as they are called. |