Example Sentences

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As yet he is unbeneficed; but his books are his only joy.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.

By further extension, the name came to be applied to unbeneficed secular ecclesiastics generally.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

During the interval which elapsed between his commercial reverses and the period of his physical debility, he prepared a novel, which he had early projected, depicting the trials and sufferings of an unbeneficed preacher.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Special provision was made for incumbents and unbeneficed curates. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)