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Benefice

verb
(past & past part. beneficed)
1.
Endow with a benefice.





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"Benefice" Quotes from Famous Books



... VIII. The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham
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... period minister of the Presbyterian Church in Swallow Street, and Dr. Desaguliers, of French Protestant descent, who had taken holy orders in England and in this same year of 1717 lectured before George I, who rewarded him with a benefice in Norfolk (Dictionary of National Biography, articles on James Anderson ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster
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... he raised the funds necessary for his campaign to reestablish and support the papal authority. This simony of his, says Dr. Jacob Burckhardt, "grew to unheard-of proportions, and extended from the appointment of cardinals down to the sale of the smallest benefice." ...
— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini
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Words linked to "Benefice" :   spirituality, endow, sinecure, dower, beneficiary, church property, spiritualty


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