ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Benefice

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Benefice is a noun meaning Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.

Meaning

Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.

More Meanings

  1. (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
  2. To bestow a benefice upon
  3. (obsolete) A favour or benefit.

Example Sentences

You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
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 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.

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