benefice, ecclesiastical benefice
(noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder
benefice
(verb) endow with a benefice
Source: WordNet® 3.1
benefice (plural benefices)
Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
(obsolete) A favour or benefit.
(feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
benefice (third-person singular simple present benefices, present participle beneficing, simple past and past participle beneficed)
To bestow a benefice upon
Source: Wiktionary
Ben"e*fice, n. Etym: [F. bénéfice, L. beneficium, a kindness , in LL. a grant of an estate, fr. L. beneficus beneficent; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit.]
1. A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.
2. (Feudal Law)
Definition: An estate in lands; a fief.
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.
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.
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.
Ben"e*fice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beneficed.]
Definition: To endow with a benefice.
Note: [Commonly in the past participle.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2024
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