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Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

Beneficently :: Beneficently (adv.) In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Present :: Present (a.) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

Provision :: Provision (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation..

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

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

Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) A ejection from a benefice.

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.

Prebend :: Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice..

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

Prestimony :: Prestimony (n.) A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator..

Benefice :: Benefice (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..

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.

Living :: Living (n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

Kindness :: Kindness (a.) The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence..

Appropriator :: Appropriator (n.) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator..

Unalist :: Unalist (n.) An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist.

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.

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