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

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

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

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..

Sinecure :: Sinecure (n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.

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.

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

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

Glebe :: Glebe (n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice..

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

Incumbent :: Incumbent (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

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.

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..

Beneficent :: Beneficent (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

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

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

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

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

Dewy :: Dewy (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew..

Christian :: Christian (a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.

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