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

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

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

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..

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

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

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

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

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