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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These chosen clergy are called proctors, and are elected by the votes of the beneficed clergy.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1673, was beneficed in the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and for a time was rector of Cranston Parish in the diocese of Edinburgh.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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 Coulton, G. G.
Over this Rural Deanery some beneficed clergyman, usually appointed by the Bishop, presides.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
Outside and near the walls of the city lies the parish of Santiago where one beneficed secular has charge of all the Spaniards who live outside the said walls.
