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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..

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

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

Presentee :: Presentee (v. t.) One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice..

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

Dewy :: Dewy (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew..

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.

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

Living :: Living (n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

Mandatary :: Mandatary (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice..

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

Present :: Present (a.) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

Kindness :: Kindness (a.) The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence..

Dataria :: Dataria (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor)..

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..

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

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

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..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift..

Benefice :: Benefice (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

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