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

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

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair..

Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

Superinduced :: Superincumbent (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

Superincumbent :: Superincumbency (n.) The quality or state of being superincumbent.

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish..

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

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

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

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Incumbently :: Incumbently (adv.) In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

Procuration :: Procuration (n.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy..

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

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