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

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

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

Void :: Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy..

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

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon..

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 (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Notorhizal :: Notorhizal (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility..

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..

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

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