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Coadjutor :: Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

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

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

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) The state of holding a benefice; the full possession and exercise of any office.

Pluralize :: Pluralize (v. i.) To hold more than one benefice at the same time.

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

Inductor :: Inductor (n.) The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Plurality :: Plurality (n.) See Plurality of benefices, below..

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..

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

Chopchurch :: Chopchurch (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

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

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