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Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..

Patronage :: Patronage (n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) The state of holding a benefice; the full possession and exercise of any office.

Fat :: Fat (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job..

Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation..

Beneficential :: Beneficential (a.) Relating to beneficence.

Beneficed :: Beneficed (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

Prebend :: Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice..

Commendatory :: Commendatory (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop..

Prebendary :: Prebendary (n.) A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3..

Archdeaconry :: Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice..

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) A favor or benefit.

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation..

Deanery :: Deanery (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..

Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..

Plurality :: Plurality (n.) See Plurality of benefices, below..

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

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