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Definition of Benefice
1. Verb. Endow with a benefice.
2. Noun. An endowed church office giving income to its holder.
Generic synonyms: Church Property, Spirituality, Spiritualty
Specialized synonyms: Sinecure
Derivative terms: Beneficiary
Definition of Benefice
1. n. A favor or benefit.
2. v. t. To endow with a benefice.
Definition of Benefice
1. Noun. Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it. ¹
2. Verb. To bestow a benefice upon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benefice
1. to endow with land [v -FICED, -FICING, -FICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benefice
Literary usage of Benefice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Should one of them happen to have been in possession of the benefice for a year,
it would devolve on the rival claimant to prove that the possessor hail no ..."
2. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"tary service (this was, properly speaking, the benefice, the one which became
the fief). benefices of the latter kind were found only during the ascendancy ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn (1842)
"That nothing hereinbefore contained shall be construed to prejudice or affect
the right of possession in any cathedral preferment or benefice to which any ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"benefice, a term first applied under {he Boman empire to portions of land, the
usufruct ... The term benefice, according to the canon law, implies always an ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The erection or constitution of a benefice, the permanent attachment of certain
revenues to the performance of certain duties, was held to be reserved to ..."
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