benefice
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The church, she says, is one of 15 in the benefice.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
The benefice of Middleton was merged with neighbouring Great Henny.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
That it has taken the House until 1970 to bestow such a benefice on the electorate is a commentary in itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its marble lions gaze out with dignity over trash and traffic alike, and the lofty portico proclaims the institution's origins in the heady days of 19th century hope and public benefice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The revenues of the benefice he spent, in those his young days, in lightness, if not in vice.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible for the State to control the Church for its own purposes..
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons.
From Time Magazine Archive
By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the year 1612, the church benefices already conferred upon Cardinal Scipione Borghese were computed to secure him an income of 150,000 scudi.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
It was pleasant to be in Oxford again, a beneficed clergyman.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
Inclosures, hedges, ditches and the like are included in things “of which the beneficed person hath the burden and charge of reparation.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
The effigy was that of Francis Zafra, the beneficed priest of the parish of St. Vincent of Seville, who was condemned as a Lutheran, but had made his escape.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
What was a beneficed clergyman, whose dignity was young and tender, to do, subjected to the criticism of unknown dogs?
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
This Testimonial must be subscribed by three beneficed clergymen.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
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