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

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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