benefice

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

Besides the sippin' and the stars, Austin happens to have one of the lowest costs of living of any metropolitan area in the nation, a benefice not lost on University of Texas graduates.

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

How could he tell her that he declined the benefice she had got him, and declined it for the sake of that, which at his age she had despised and sacrificed so lightly?

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

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

By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conflicts without number rage over the possession of benefices, plurality of which is coveted by an execrable ambition.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg

To their teaching are indebted the majority of the beneficed clergy, secular priests, in the islands, besides many others who have entered the orders.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

It was pleasant to be in Oxford again, a beneficed clergyman.

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman

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

No layman is accepted by the Bishop for Ordination without Letters Testimonial—i.e. the testimony of three beneficed Clergymen, to whom he is well known.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes

Spō′lium, the property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various