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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..

Coadjutor :: Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

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

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

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

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) A favor or benefit.

Inductor :: Inductor (n.) The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

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

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

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..

Commendator :: Commendator (n.) One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.

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

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

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

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a 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..

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..

Beneficient :: Beneficient (a.) Beneficent.

Pluralize :: Pluralize (v. i.) To hold more than one benefice at the same time.

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

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