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noun. A church office endowed with fixed capital assets that provide a living.

noun. The revenue from such assets.

noun. A landed estate granted in feudal tenure.

noun. In feudal law, originally, a fee or an estate in lands granted for life only, and held ex mero beneficio (on the mere good pleasure) of the donor.

noun. An ecclesiastical living; a church office endowed with a revenue for its proper fulfilment; the revenue itself.

noun. Benefit.

To endow or invest with a benefice.

transitive verb. To endow with a benefice.

noun. A favor or benefit.

noun. An estate in lands; a fief.

noun. 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.

noun. Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.

verb. To bestow a benefice upon

noun. an endowed church office giving income to its holder

verb. endow with a benefice

"Huity to J.S. until he be promoted to a competent benefice, and 251. at the time of the grant he was but a mean perfon, and afterward is made an arch-deacon, yet if 1 offer him a competent benefice* according to his eftate at the time of the grant, the annuity doth ceafe."

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beneficed  

dower  endow  

archbishopric  canonry  curacy  deanery  dignidad  

commandery  curacy  fief  living  mensal  

advowson  

beneficed  benefices