BENEFICE

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.

2.
n.

An estate in lands; a fief.

3.
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.

4.
v.

To endow with a benefice.

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