benefice

The benefice of Middleton was merged with neighbouring Great Henny.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023

The church, she says, is one of 15 in the benefice.

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

Swift was lucky to be left with a dreary benefice in Dublin, the deanship of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

The territorial element was the benefice, or fief, granted to the vassal by the lord to be used on certain conditions by the former while the title to it remained with the latter.

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

Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The bag or wallet of the apostles has been converted into treasures, benefices, principalities and revenues.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

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

This Testimonial must be subscribed by three beneficed clergymen.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

The village of San Antonio is also near the walls, and is in charge of a beneficed secular.

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

Thirteen of the beneficed clergy were altogether bookless, though several of them possessed the baselard or dagger which church councils had forbidden in vain for centuries past; four more had only their Breviary.

From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton

Over this Rural Deanery some beneficed clergyman, usually appointed by the Bishop, presides.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous