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Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Beneficence; liberality.

Gracious :: Gracious (a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty..

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

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

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5..

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

Blessing :: Blessing (v. t.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.

Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation..

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

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

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.

Mandatary :: Mandatary (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice..

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

Altruistic :: Altruistic (a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent..

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

Commendam :: Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

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.

Beneficed :: Beneficed (imp. & p. p.) of Benefic.

Beneficeless :: Beneficeless (a.) Having no benefice.

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