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Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls..

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

Fat :: Fat (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job..

Beneficential :: Beneficential (a.) Relating to beneficence.

Pluralist :: Pluralist (n.) A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Collate :: Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift..

Bounteous :: Bounteous (a.) Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production..

Collate :: Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to..

Collator :: Collator (n.) One who collates to a benefice.

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

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

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

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

Titulary :: Titulary (n.) A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not..

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

Title :: Title (n.) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

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

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..

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

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