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

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

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

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

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.) 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..

Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation..

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

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

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

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

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation..

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

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

Plenarty :: Plenarty (n.) The state of a benefice when occupied.

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

Dataria :: Dataria (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor)..

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

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

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

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