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A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.…

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

me." John xiv. 1. (c) To believe that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

Beneficence; liberality. [Obs.] Webster (1623).

To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.

Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

dation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries. [Scot.]

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

He; the one. Cestuy que trust ( Etym: [norm. F.], a person who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. Wharton. -- Cestuy que use ( Etym: [Norm. F.], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.

Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak.

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]

Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owi…

The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.