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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..

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.

Appropriate :: Appropriate (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property..

Presentee :: Presentee (v. t.) One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice..

Beneficence :: Beneficence (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness..

Residence :: Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

Dewy :: Dewy (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent..

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) A favor or benefit.

Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

Archdeaconry :: Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice..

Commendator :: Commendator (n.) One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

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

Beneficient :: Beneficient (a.) Beneficent.

Institution :: Institution (n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge..

Glebe :: Glebe (n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice..

Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

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