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

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

rm 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.

Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.

Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. [R.] Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous. Cudworth.

t, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

piness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak.

lling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.

An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. Ayliffe.

The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. Blackstone.

th continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." Atterbury. "The stream of emigration." Macaulay.

ctions. Bentley. There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. Cheyne.

One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another. Bailey.

bands, and hover around plants. The larvæ feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.

A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

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An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist. [Eng.] V. Knox.

all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. "Anointed universal King." Milton. The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. Pope. This universal frame began. Dryden.

o produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts. To what can I useful! Milton.