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Beneficent :: Beneficent (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

Universal :: Universal (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice..

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

Bounteous :: Bounteous (a.) Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) A ejection from a benefice.

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent..

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

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..

Mazdean :: Mazdean (a.) Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian..

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

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5..

Beneficeless :: Beneficeless (a.) Having no benefice.

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

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

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

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..

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

Appropriate :: Appropriate (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property..

Collate :: Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary..

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

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