Brewer's: In Commendam

(Latin). The holding of church preferment for a time, on the recommendation of the Crown, till a suitable person can be provided. Thus a clergyman who has been elevated to the bench retains for a time his “living” in commendam.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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