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To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor. Prescott.

A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5. P. Plowman.

Benefit; profit; good; advantage. [Obs.] That shall be for your hele and for your prow. Chaucer.

To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

rvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate Milton.

unt; estimation. You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. Sir P. Sidney.

One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.

Apostate; false; unfaithful. Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false. Milton.

Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.),

Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual. [Obs.] Forced to forego the attempt remediless. Spenser.

The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.] "Remisses of laws." Puttenham.

r; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler.

of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

erence; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the various benefits men received from him, had several titles. Tillotson.

and good life. Tillotson. Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc. Bouvier. -- Resulting use (Law), a use which, being li…

er men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.