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Benefice
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Benefice has 1 sense
- benefice(n = noun.possession) ecclesiastical benefice - an endowed church office giving income to its holder; Array is a kind of church property, spirituality, spiritualty
has particulars: sinecure
Derived forms verb benefice1, adjective beneficiary1
Verb Benefice has 1 sense
- benefice(v = verb.possession) Array - endow with a benefice; Array is one way to dower, endow
Derived forms noun benefice1, noun beneficiary1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Benefice, n. [F. bénéfice, L. beneficium, a kindness , in LL. a grant of an estate, fr. L. beneficus beneficent; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit.].
- A favor or benefit. Baxter. [1913 Webster]
- An estate in lands; a fief. [1913 Webster]" Such an estate was granted at first for life only, and held on the mere good pleasure of the donor; but afterward, becoming hereditary, it received the appellation of fief, and the term benefice became appropriated to church livings." [1913 Webster]
- An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson. [1913 Webster]" All church preferments are called benefices, except bishoprics, which are called dignities. But, ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, archdeaconries, and prebendaryships; benefice to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives." [1913 Webster]
Benefice, v. t.
To endow with a benefice.
"[Commonly in the past participle.]"
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Benefice, n.
1 a living from a church office.
2 the property attached to a church office, esp. that bestowed on a rector or vicar.
1 a living from a church office.
2 the property attached to a church office, esp. that bestowed on a rector or vicar.
Derivative
beneficed adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L beneficium favour f. bene well + facere do
ROGET THESAURUS
Benefice
Churchdom
N church, churchdom, ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church, clericalism, sacerdotalism, episcopalianism, ultramontanism, theocracy, ecclesiology, ecclesiologist, priestcraft, odium theologicum, monachism, monachy, monasticism, monkhood, pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, prelacy, bishopric, bishopdom, episcopate, episcopacy, see, diocese, deanery, stall, canonry, canonicate, prebend, prebendaryship, benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure, rectorship, vicariate, vicarship, deaconry, deaconship, curacy, chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, abbacy, presbytery, holy orders, ordination, institution, consecration, induction, reading in, preferment, translation, presentation, popedom, the Vatican, the apostolic see, religious sects, council, conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter, vestry, sanhedrim, conge d'elire, ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic, hierarchical, archiepiscopal, episcopal, episcopalian, canonical, monastic, monachal, monkish, abbatial, abbatical, Anglican, pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish, ultramontane, priest-ridden.
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