ANNAT
\ˈanət], \ˈanət], \ˈa_n_ə_t]\
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A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.
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A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.
By Noah Webster.
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an'at, ANNATE, an'[=a]t, n. the first-fruits, or one year's income, or a specified portion of such, paid to the Pope by a bishop, abbot, or other ecclesiastic, on his appointment to a new see or benefice. It was abolished in England in 1534, and next year the right was annexed to the crown, the fund thus arising being administered for the benefit of the Church of England, afterwards transferred to the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, next to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: (Scots law) the half-year's stipend payable for the vacant half-year after the death of a parish minister, to which his family or nearest of kin have right under an act of 1672. [Low L. annata--L. annus, a year.]
By Thomas Davidson
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