A year's revenue of a Roman Catholic see or benefice, paid to the Pope by a bishop or other cleric on his appointment.
〈主史〉（天主教）首岁圣职收入奉献（由新任主教或教职人员献给教皇）
Example sentencesExamples
He enforced clerical discipline and residence; he forbade the sale of Indulgences; he reduced Papal spending and he abolished annates.
Hereafter no remittances shall be made for annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne.
The impost called annates involved the surrender of one-half of revenues during the first year of office by each new episcopal incumbent.
It is known that the German and Polish noblemen allowed the Apostolic See to collect the annates for only a few years in order to restrain the enemies of the Christian faith and to check the Turk in his attacks.
Long ago the emperors and princes of Germany allowed the Pope to claim the annates [6] from all German benefices; that is, half of the first year's income from every benefice.
The necessary Bulls and the pallium were obtained from Rome under threat that the law for the abolition of annates and first-fruits would be made permanent.
Origin
Early 16th century: from French, from medieval Latin annata 'year's proceeds', from annus 'year'.