benefice

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In 1449, the city council of Toledo, Spain, passed an ordinance decreeing “that no converso of Jewish descent may have or hold any office or benefice in the said city of Toledo.”

From The New Yorker

The idea of a paid vicar in every single church on a Sunday - certainly in the benefice here - is long gone.

From BBC

Most important of these was the appropriation of benefices to their use.

From Project Gutenberg

The kings gave their leading chiefs portions of conquered land or of the royal domains, under the name of benefices.

From Project Gutenberg

The revenues of the benefice he spent, in those his young days, in lightness, if not in vice.

From Project Gutenberg