benefice

Examples

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• Some nobles drew royal pensions given to them via benefices or related to their functions or distinctions.

  Blog text (3)

• Acquisition and accumulation of property enabled them to advance their social status and behave like landed gentlemen, presenting priests to benefices and exercising rights of lordship.

  Academic text (2010)

• Filling these vacant benefices became the primary point of contention between church and state.

  Academic text (1999)

• "It's somewhat like a grace and favor benefice, with your Great-uncle Horatio's own alterations."

  Fiction book (1999)

• Under this system, the nobles and sometimes bishops or abbots held the rights to various benefices or offices in the Church.

  Academic text (2002)

• Seigneurial families provided personnel, appointed to benefices, and sponsored visiting preachers.

  Academic text (2018)

• Under this system, ecclesiastical positions were related to benefices associated with particular churches, dioceses, and abbeys.

  Academic text (2004)

• The resulting sense of entitlement, both on the part of the laity who held the rights to the benefices and the men installed into these positions, paved the way for more serious abuses.

  Academic text (2004)

• In the latter cases, so long as benefice holders pledged their fealty to the center and regularly remitted assigned tax quotas, their prebendary rights remained intact.

  Academic text (2014)

• The seigneur de Gouberville, father of the diarist Gilles, had granted his own brother the benefice of the parish, which the priest held in plurality with two others.

  Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

E

ecclesiastical benefice

vsbenefice

• Formal

9.9

A church job that gives money to the person who has it

is a permanent appointment that includes property for the appointee

Compounds

E

ecclesiastical benefice

• Formal

9.9

A church job that gives money to the person who has it

Surface Forms

Etymology