Noun:

बेनिफिस,

benefice's Usage Examples:

He was commended to the hospitality of Anne Boleyn's father, the earl of Wiltshire, in whose house at Durham Place he resided for some time; the king appointed him archdeacon of Taunton and one of his chaplains; and he also held a parochial benefice, the name of which is unknown.

The word is particularly used of the income from an ecclesiastical benefice or of the salary paid to any minister of religion.

Fisher sent him in August 1511 to teach in Cambridge; Warham gave him a benefice, Aldington in Kent, worth 33,6s.8d.

When ordered abroad they could nominate a son, if capable, to hold the benefice and carry on the duty.

He resigned his benefice in 1773 and betook himself to the study of the law and philology.

The declaration is to the effect that the clergyman has not received the presentation in consideration of any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit directly or indirectly given or promised by him or any one for him to any one; that he has not made any promise of resignation other than that allowed by the Clerical Resignation Bonds Act 1828; that he has not for any money or benefit procured the avoidance of the benefice; and that he has not been party to any agreement invalidated by sec. 3 sub-sec. 3 of the act which invalidates any agreement for the exercise of a right of patronage in favour or on the nomination of any particular person, and any agreement on the transfer of a right of patronage (a) for the retransfer of the right, or (b) for postponing payment of any part of the consideration for the transfer until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (c) for payment of interest until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (d) for any payment in respect of the date at which a vacancy occurs, or (e) for the resignation of a benefice in favour of any person.

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He is entitled to consecrate all the bishops within his province and was formerly entitled, upon consecrating a bishop, to select a benefice within his diocese at his option for one of his chaplains, but this practice was indirectly abolished by 3 and 4 Vict.

Questions in regard to the property in a benefice were for the courts Christian; in regard to its possession, for the king's courts.

It was from the precarium, or ecclesiastical benefice, that the feudal fief originated.

Synonyms:

sinecure, church property, spirituality, ecclesiastical benefice, spiritualty,

Antonyms:

disable, worldliness, outwardness,