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Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation..

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

Pluralist :: Pluralist (n.) A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

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

Beneficence :: Beneficence (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness..

Beneficently :: Beneficently (adv.) In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Beneficence; liberality.

Altruistic :: Altruistic (a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Fief :: Fief (n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2..

Provision :: Provision (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation..

Superintellectual :: Superinstitution (n.) One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another..

Christian :: Christian (a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

Prestimony :: Prestimony (n.) A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator..

Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..

Plenarty :: Plenarty (n.) The state of a benefice when occupied.

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..

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..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent..

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

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