benefice
noun/ˈbɛnɪfɪs/UK
Etymology
From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.
- derived from beneficium
- derived from benefice
Definitions
Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
- If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
- There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
A favour or benefit.
An estate in lands
An estate in lands; a fief.
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To bestow a benefice upon
- There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn.
- You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
The neighborhood
- neighborbeneficence
- neighborbeneficent
- neighborbeneficial
- neighborcuratage
- neighborcurateship
- neighborcuracy
- neighborglebe-house
- neighborparsonage
- neighborparsonship
- neighborrectorate
- neighborrectory
- neighborvicarage
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at benefice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at benefice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at benefice
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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