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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..

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

Fill :: Fill (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy..

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

Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

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

Incumbently :: Incumbently (adv.) In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

Void :: Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

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..

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

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

Parson :: Parson (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls..

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..

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

Residence :: Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

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

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..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight.

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

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