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Collate :: Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to..

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

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..

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.

Kindly :: Kindly (n.) Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.

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

Induct :: Induct (v. t.) To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies..

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

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..

Title :: Title (n.) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

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

Incumbent :: Incumbent (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

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

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices..

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

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

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

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

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..

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