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Benefice :: Benefice (n.) 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..

Ambition :: Ambition (n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something..

Parson :: Parson (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher..

Annates :: Annates (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings..

Preferment :: Preferment (n.) A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church..

Dignity :: Dignity (n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation..

Simony :: Simony (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

Beneficed :: Beneficed (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Preferment :: Preferment (n.) The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference..

Promottion :: Promottion (n.) The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment..

Eminence :: Eminence (n.) An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment..

Simoniac :: Simoniac (n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church..

Preferment :: Preferment (n.) The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion..

Primitia :: Primitia (n.) The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

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