benefice
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]benefice (plural benefices)
- Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
- 1681, Richard Baxter, “Her Desires to Do Good”, in Life of Mrs. Margaret Baxter. […] (Christian Biography), abridged edition, London: Religious Tract Society, […], published [1832], →OCLC, page 46:
- She saw how many, even of good men's children, profaned the ministry, […] that she was vehemently against addicting any to that office, that had not, besides good wits and parts, so great a love to God and souls, as to come to it with absolute self-denial, resolved to serve Christ at the dearest rates, and take his acceptance and the winning of souls for their benefice.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 94:
- There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
- (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
- (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]land granted to a priest
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benefit — see benefit
in feudal law
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Verb
[edit]benefice (third-person singular simple present benefices, present participle beneficing, simple past and past participle beneficed)
- To bestow a benefice upon
- 1917, George A. Stephen, Three Centuries of a City Library[1]:
- 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.
- 1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe[2]:
- You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bénéfice.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]benefice m or n (plural benefices)
- (obsolete) an office, privilege or advantage
- (obsolete) a charitative event or institution
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From beneficus (“beneficent, generous”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /beˈne.fi.keː/, [bɛˈnɛfɪkeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /beˈne.fi.t͡ʃe/, [beˈnɛːfit͡ʃe]
Adverb
[edit]beneficē (comparative beneficius, no superlative)
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]benefice
References
[edit]- “benefice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- benefice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin beneficium.
Noun
[edit]benefice oblique singular, m (oblique plural benefices, nominative singular benefices, nominative plural benefice)
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