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Superincumbent :: Superincumbency (n.) The quality or state of being superincumbent.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility..

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

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..

Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish..

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair..

Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

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

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..

Notorhizal :: Notorhizal (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

Superinduced :: Superincumbent (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

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