1) Church property 2) Ecclesiastical benefice 3) Ecclesiastical living 4) Endow with a benefice 5) French word used in English 6) Spirituality 7) Spiritualty 8) To bestow a benefice upon
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1) Sinecure
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A benefice s is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services. The Roman Empire used the Latin term beneficium as a benefit to an individual from the Empire for services rendered. Its use was adopted by the western church in the Carolingian Era as a benefit bestowed by the crown or church officials. A be...
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ecclesiastical office to which revenue is attached
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• (n.) An estate in lands; a fief. • (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson. • (v. t.) To endow with a benefice. • (n.) A favor or benefit.
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a particular kind of land tenure that came into use in the 8th century in the kingdom of the Franks. A Frankish sovereign or lord, the seigneur, ... [3 related articles]
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source of income
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A collection of land, rights, buildings, and/or communities given by a lord to his vassal, providing the vassal's material support, in exchange for military service and counsel.
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In the early Middle Ages, a donation of land or money to the Christian church as an act of devotion; from the 12th century, the term came to mean the income enjoyed by clergy. Under the
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Income or other profit related to a Church ministry. The current Code of Canonic Law provides that, where it still exists, it be gradually eliminated
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Ben'e·fice noun [ French
bénéfice , Latin
beneficium , a kindness , in Late Latin a grant of an estate, from Latin
beneficus beneficent;
bene well +
facere to do. See
Benefit .]
1. A favor or benefit. [ Obsolete]
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Ben'e·fice transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Beneficed .] To endow with a benefice. [ Commonly in the past participle.]
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Obs. Land given by the lord to a vassal, for the vassal's use. it remains the property of the lord, and is not inheritable, in the old sense of the word's use. This changed after 875 A.D., when benefices became inheritable, 'real' property of the vassal.
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An ecclesiastical office i.e. Rectory, Vicarage, Deanery , Perpetual Curate
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A benefice is an ecclesiastical living; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. Vicarages, rectories, perpetual curacies, and chaplaincies are termed benefices, in contradistinction to dignities, such as bishoprics, etc.
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[
n] - an endowed church office giving income to its holder 2. [v] - endow with a benefice
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ecclesiastical benefice noun an endowed church office giving income to its holder
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In the early Middle Ages, a donation of land or money to the Christian church as an act of devotion; from the 12th century, the term came to mean the income enjoyed by clergy. Under the Carolingian dynasty, `benefice` was used to mean a gift of land from a lord to a vassal, in which sense it is often indistinguishable from a fief
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