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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.

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

Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..

Deanery :: Deanery (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..

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

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

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

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

Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..

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

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

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

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

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

Fief :: Fief (n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2..

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

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

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

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

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