Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
BENEFICED
beneficed
(adjective) having a benefice; “a beneficed clergyman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
beneficed
simple past tense and past participle of benefice
Adjective
beneficed (not comparable)
(Christianity) Having a benefice
Source: Wiktionary
Ben"e*ficed, a.
Definition: Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.
BENEFICE
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
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