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Beneficial   /bˌɛnəfˈɪʃəl/   Listen
adjective
Beneficial  adj.  
1.
Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; followed by to. "The war which would have been most beneficial to us."
2.
(Law) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
3.
King. (Obs.) "A beneficial foe."
Synonyms: See Advantage.






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... in the great metropolis had worked wonders in the boy. He no longer looked or felt "green," and he was fast acquiring a business way that was bound, sooner or later, to be highly beneficial to him. ...
— Richard Dare's Venture • Edward Stratemeyer

... before us, who worshipped the blessed and immortal and life-giving Trinity, have decreed in behalf of the true and apostolic faith, these laws, we say, as always beneficial for the whole world, we will at no time to be inoperative, but rather we promulgate them as our own. We, preferring piety and zeal in the cause of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who created and has made us glorious ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... are involved in the issue of the efforts which we are now making for the improvement of agriculture in this colony. Not only has the impulse which has been imparted to the public mind in Jamaica been beneficial in itself and in its direct effects, but it has, I am firmly persuaded, checked opposing tendencies, which threatened very injurious consequences to Negro civilisation. To reconcile the planter to the heavy ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

... time, the Moors in Spain were far more deadly persecutors of the Jews than the Christians were. Amidst the Spanish cities on the coast, that merchant tribe had formed commercial connections with the Christians, sufficiently beneficial, both to individuals and to communities, to obtain for them, not only toleration, but something of personal friendship, wherever men bought and sold in the market-place. And the gloomy fanaticism which afterwards stained the fame of the great Ferdinand, and introduced the horrors of the Inquisition, ...
— Leila, Complete - The Siege of Granada • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... anterior, universal, and absolute right. According to the people, the epoch, and the degree of civilization, according to the outer or inner condition of things, all civil or political equality or inequality may, in turn, be or cease to be beneficial or hurtful, and therefore justify the legislator in removing or preserving it. It is according to this superior and salutary law, and not according to an imaginary and impossible contract, that he ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine


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