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beneficed

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a benefice
    a beneficed clergyman

How To Use beneficed In A Sentence

  • A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most The Kellys and the O'Kellys
  • Although - as a beneficed clergyman - he has the Lowick living, he lets the rectory and lives in the nearby manor-house (inherited on the death of his elder brother).
  • Thirteen of the beneficed clergy were altogether bookless, though several of them possessed the baselard or dagger which church councils had forbidden in vain for centuries past; four more had only their breviary. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
  • _ Domine, voc. of Dominus) still familiarly applied to schoolmasters, who were of course originally invariably clergymen.] [Footnote 165: A Conventual is a member of some monastic order attached to the regular service of a church, or (as would nowadays be said) a "beneficed" monk.] [Footnote 166: _Sic. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • He said something about tradition; more of the many learned men who by their practice had confirmed the present arrangement; then went at some length into the propriety of maintaining the due difference in rank and income between a beneficed clergyman and certain poor old men who were dependent on charity; and concluded his argument by another reference to the archdeacon. The Warden
  • “Poor as I am,” said Mr. Twemlow, now consulting with her, “and poor as every beneficed clergyman must be, if this war returns, I would rather have lost a hundred pounds than have heard what you tell me, Maria.” Springhaven
  • The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England. Tales of all countries
  • He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Just while this disappointment was bearing heavy on his spirits, Butler comes before his imagination — no longer the half-starved threadbare usher, but fat and sleek and fair, the beneficed minister of The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. The Claverings
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