Prebend

He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.

c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington

For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.