Definizione monolingua

benefice

benefice (third-person singular simple present benefices, present participle beneficing, simple past and past participle beneficed)

1. To bestow a benefice upon
   • 1917, George A. Stephen, Three Centuries of a City Library^[1]:

     There are two volumes, ""The Open Door for Mans approach to God"" (London, 1650) and ""A Consideration of Infant Baptism"" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, Kings Lynn.

   • 1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe^[2]:

     You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why dont you DO it?

benefice (plural benefices)

1. Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB 2001, vol. 1 p. 323:

     If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh [...].

   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 94:

     There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.

benefice

1. vocative masculine singular of beneficus

Definizione dizionario benefice

beneficio ecclesiastico

congrua

Altri significati:

Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.

To bestow a benefice upon