benefice
noun
a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
unbeneficed
-
a word derived from
benefice.
Example Sentences
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The cheap and good education attainable as a matter of right in this borough, have rendered it a favourite resort of half-pay officers and unbeneficed clergymen, blessed with large families.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
The clergy are always curious about one another by a sort of freemasonry, and Parson Chichester knew every beneficed clergyman in the diocese and most of the unbeneficed.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The priest who officiated was an unbeneficed clergyman, long known as an inmate of the castle.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
The king ordered the bishops to find a remedy; and they reported Islip’s constitution, which was thus turned into a parliamentary statute, a kind of “Statute of Labourers” for the unbeneficed clergy.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
