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Definition: Advowson |
AdvowsonNoun1. The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "advowson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Advowson means the right of appointing the incumbent of a church or ecclesiastical benefice. In mediæval times the "advocacy" or patronage of bishoprics and abbeys was frequently in the hands of powerful nobles, who often claimed the right to appoint in the event of a vacancy; hence the word (from Latin, advocatio, the office of a patron). A presentative advowson is when the patron presents to the bishop a person to whom he is willing to give the place of preferment. A collative advowson is when the bishop himself is patron, and collates his client without any intermediate person. A donative advowson is where the Crown gives a living to a clergyman without presentation, institution, or induction. This is done when a church or chapel has been founded by the Crown, and is not subject to the ordinary. Advowson in gross is an advowson separated from the manor, and belonging wholly to the owner. While attached to the manor it is an advowson appendant. "Gross" (French) means absolute, entire; thus gross weight is the entire weight without deductions. A villain in gross was a villain the entire property of his master, and not attached to the land. A common in gross is one which is entirely your own, and which belongs to the manor. Sale of Advowsons. When lords of manors built churches upon their own demesnes, and endowed them, they became private property, which the lord might give away or even sell, under certain limitations. These livings are called Advowsons appendant, being appended to the manor. After a time they became regular "commercial property," and we still see the sale of some of them in the public journals. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Churchdom | Pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy; prelacy; bishopric, bishopdom; episcopate, episcopacy; see, diocese; deanery, stall; canonry, canonicate; prebend, prebendaryship; benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure; rectorship; vicariate, vicarship; deaconry, deaconship; curacy; chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship; cardinalate, cardinalship; abbacy, presbytery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Advowson |
| English words defined with "advowson": Advocation, Advowee, Advowson in gross, Avowee ♦ Donative. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "advowson": Advocation. (references) |
| "Advowson" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Advowson" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "advowson": Advowson in gross. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "advowson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | تأييد (advocacy, corroboration, countenance, favor, favour, support). (various references) | ||||
Manx | kiart enmys. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | advowsonay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "advowson": advowsons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "advowson" (pronounced 'Ad*vow"son'): Antimason, Arson, Bason, Bison, Bisson, Boson, Caisson, Chanson, Diapason, Disdiapason, Dobson, Elison, Encrimson, Foison, Foyson, Geason, godson, grandson, Great-grandson, grison, hyson, Impoison, keelson, Kelson, Nupson, Outreason, Overseason, Parson, Plasson, Pocoson, Ramson, reason, Samson, Semidiapason, Sponson, Stemson, stepson, Sternson, Telson, treason, Tridiapason, Unpoison, Unseason, Urson, Waveson, Whitson, Whoreson. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-o-o-s-v-w" | |
-2 letters: aswoon. | |
-3 letters: adown, avows, dawns, donas, downs, novas, snood, swoon, wands, woads, woods. | |
-4 letters: ados, ands, avos, avow, awns, dawn, daws, dona, dons, down, dows, naos, nods, nova, nows, owns, sand, sawn, snaw, snow, soda, soon, sown, swan, vans, vaws, vows, wads, wand, wans, woad, wons, wood, woos. | |
-5 letters: ado, ads, and, avo, awn, daw, don, dos, dow, naw, nod, noo, nos, now, ods, ons, ova, own, sad, saw, sod, son, sow, van, vas, vaw, vow, wad, wan, was, won, woo, wos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-o-o-s-v-w" | |
+1 letter: advowsons. | |
+4 letters: woodcarvings. | |
+5 letters: overshadowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 76 6F 77 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ...- --- .--. ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110110 01101111 01110111 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d v o w s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0076 006F 0077 0073 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570888189858180 |
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