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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: benefice
benefice
n : an endowed church office giving income to its holder [syn:
ecclesiastical benefice
]
benefice
v : endow with a benefice
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Benefice
Benefice
\Ben"e*fice\, n. [F. b['e]n['e]fice, L. beneficium, a
kindness, in LL. a grant of an estate, fr. L. beneficus
beneficent; bene well + facere to do. See
Benefit.]
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1. A favor or benefit. [Obs.] --Baxter.
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2. (Feudal Law) An estate in lands; a fief.
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Note: 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.
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3. 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.
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Note: 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.
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Benefice
\Ben"e*fice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Beneficed.]
To endow with a benefice.
Note: [Commonly in the past participle.]
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