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
Could Bonamy really be so foolish, he wondered, as to think he could get rid of a beneficed clergyman.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
The cause of this was that Middleton, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England, and a Cambridge man, differed from other 108Cambridge clergymen on controversial points and church questions.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
He was a beneficed clergyman and a man of wealth, so that he could not have lied for money even if Pope had been willing to bribe him.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
What was a beneficed clergyman, whose dignity was young and tender, to do, subjected to the criticism of unknown dogs?
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
