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Benefice
BEN'EFICE, n. [L. beneficium.]
1. Literally, a benefit, advantage or kindness. But in present usage, en ecclesiastical living; a church endowed with a revenue, for the maintenance of divine service,or the revenue itself. All church preferments are called benefices, except bishoprics, which are called dignities. But ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, arch-deaconries, and prebendaries; and benefice, to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives.
2. In the middle ages, benefice was used for a fee, or an estate in lands, granted at first for like only, and held ex mero beneficio of the donor. The estate afterwards becoming hereditary, took the appellation of feud, and benefice became appropriated to church livings.
benefice appears in definitions for these words:
Admission Advocate Advowson Appropriate Appropriation Appropriator Approprietary Assizes Avoid Avoidance Avowee Benefice Beneficed Beneficeless Beneficent Beneficently Beneficiary Benignity Bounteous Canonry Caveat Cession Chop-church Collate Collated Collation Collative Collator Commander Commandry Commendam Commendatory Concordat Confessedly Consolidate Consolidation Corody Curateship Dignitary Donative Exauctorate Fat First-fruit Glebe Impetration Impropriate Impropriation Incest Incumbency Incumbent Induct Induction Inductor Indult Institute Institution Investiture Kindness Lapse Lapsed Law Living Mandatary Mandatory Office Option Parish Parsonage Patron Patronage Permutation Plenarty Pluralist Plurality Portionist Practice Prelacy Present Presentation Presentee Prestimony Provision Provisor Ragmans-roll Residence Secularization Sequester Simony Sinecure Spoliation Stream Superinstitution Title Titulary Unbeneficed Union Usurpation Vacancy Vicarage Vitally Voidance
Admission Advocate Advowson Appropriate Appropriation Appropriator Approprietary Assizes Avoid Avoidance Avowee Benefice Beneficed Beneficeless Beneficent Beneficently Beneficiary Benignity Bounteous Canonry Caveat Cession Chop-church Collate Collated Collation Collative Collator Commander Commandry Commendam Commendatory Concordat Confessedly Consolidate Consolidation Corody Curateship Dignitary Donative Exauctorate Fat First-fruit Glebe Impetration Impropriate Impropriation Incest Incumbency Incumbent Induct Induction Inductor Indult Institute Institution Investiture Kindness Lapse Lapsed Law Living Mandatary Mandatory Office Option Parish Parsonage Patron Patronage Permutation Plenarty Pluralist Plurality Portionist Practice Prelacy Present Presentation Presentee Prestimony Provision Provisor Ragmans-roll Residence Secularization Sequester Simony Sinecure Spoliation Stream Superinstitution Title Titulary Unbeneficed Union Usurpation Vacancy Vicarage Vitally Voidance
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