annate

See ann.

annate (plural annates)

1. The first year's profits of a Catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the Pope.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 342:

     When he brings into the Commons a bill to suspend the payment of annates to Rome, he suggests a division of the House.

2. (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.

annate

1. Second-person plural indicative present form of andma.

annate f

1. plural of annata

annāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of annō