Crossword-Solution: ANNATS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Annats | n. pl. | Alt. of Annates |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ANNATS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Benefice payments. | 1 answer |
| Church revenue. | 1 answer |
| First fruits of a benefice: Var. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANNATS (5)
Where was he to get money except from the contributions of Christendom? But kings and princes and bishops and abbots were getting tired of this everlasting drain of money to Rome, in the shape of annats and taxes; so Leo revived an old custom of the Dark Ages,--he would sell "plenary indulgences"; and he sent his agents to market them in every country.
The Parliament likewise abolished annats,--a custom which had long prevailed in Europe, which required one year's income to be sent to the Pope on any new preferment; a great burden to the clergy; a sort of tribute to a foreign power.
Annats, or payments to the Pope on the occasion of appointment to French benefices, should be discontinued.
Since the month of August of last year, when I began to govern these islands, the half-annats [103] have been collected with the care ordered by your Majesty, in which I coöperated with the commissary for that tax.
All these cardinals have the repute of princes, and besides other incomes, they have the annats of benefices to support their greatness.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–1966).