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Favorable; beneficent. Milton.

To endow with a benefice.

Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

tive goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which would have been most beneficial to us. Swift.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

r a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon.

To reduce (ores). -- Ben`e*fi`ci*a"tion (n.

Beneficent. [Obs.]

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to Ant: egoistic or Ant: selfish. Bain. -- Al`tru*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.