benefice
noun
a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
beneficed
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past participleof benefice.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof benefice.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
beneficenouna position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
Example Sentences
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Inconvenient as it was, the practice of seeking the assent of local synods to taxation was necessary so long as the whole body of the beneficed clergy was not systematically represented in convocation.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
Spō′lium, the property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Inclosures, hedges, ditches and the like are included in things “of which the beneficed person hath the burden and charge of reparation.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
In that year, to judge by the Diocesan records, no less than eighty-five per cent. of the beneficed clergy were swept away, which implies a corresponding mortality amongst other classes.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Thirteen of the beneficed clergy were altogether bookless, though several of them possessed the baselard or dagger which church councils had forbidden in vain for centuries past; four more had only their Breviary.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
