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Altruistic :: Altruistic (a.) Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Simony :: Simony (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

Commendam :: Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

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

Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.

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

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

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

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

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..

Residence :: Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

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

Beneficient :: Beneficient (a.) Beneficent.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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