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Definition of Benefact
1. Verb. Help as a benefactor. "The father benefacted his daughter in more ways than she was aware of"
Definition of Benefact
1. to confer a benefit upon [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benefact
Literary usage of Benefact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"... benefacT tors, who, when by fraud and rapine they have extorted all their
lives, oppressed whole provinces, societies, &c. give something tp pious uses, ..."
2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"... love ought to have reposed unbounded confidence in her benefact. and benefactress."
" Well ! Women understand women," said her husband, ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The funds for these benefact ions were chiefly drawn from the gifts and bequests,
amounting to 10800/., of Archbishop Langham, of whose will Litlington was ..."
4. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing by James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry Dexter (1862)
"He ree. in July 1632 gr. of four lots of Id. of various quantity, from the Col.
besides what the town may have gr. if any, tho. no such benefact. to either ..."
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