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Avowee :: Avowee (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

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

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

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

Sinecure :: Sinecure (n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.

Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson..

Gracious :: Gracious (a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty..

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

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..

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

Impetration :: Impetration (n.) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm..

Vicar :: Vicar (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

Institution :: Institution (n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge..

Benefic :: Benefic (a.) Favorable; beneficent.

Beneficient :: Beneficient (a.) Beneficent.

Chopchurch :: Chopchurch (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

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

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

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

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