Benefice

Huity to J.S. until he be promoted to a competent benefice, and 251. at the time of the grant he was but a mean perfon, and afterward is made an arch-deacon, yet if 1 offer him a competent benefice* according to his eftate at the time of the grant, the annuity doth ceafe. ❋ Unknown (1790)

Popularly the term benefice is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls, but in the strict sense it signifies a right, i.e. the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of some spiritual service. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Since the usufruct allowed to clerics resembled the grants of land which sovereigns were accustomed to make to subjects who had distinguished themselves by military or political service, and which the Church was at times compelled to concede to powerful lay lords in order to secure necessary protection in troubled times, it was natural that the term benefice, which had been applied to these grants, should be employed to denote the similar practice in regard to ecclesiastics. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

How to keep your independence and yet benefice from the general publishing world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a young priest he obtained a rich benefice from the Archbishop of Braga and proceeded to go on pilgrimage, leaving the benefice in the care of a nephew. ❋ John (2003)

Each ecclesiastic, be he bishop, abbot, or priest, had right to a benefice, that is, to the revenue of a parcel of land attached to his post. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

The benefice was a very plentiful one, and placed at his disposal annually a sum of at least eight hundred dollars, of which the eighth part was more than sufficient to defray the expenses of his house and himself; the rest was devoted entirely to the purest acts of charity. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Hawthorn-Grove Rector; Sir Charles Conway having already secured to him the next presentation to that benefice, which is, it seems, nearly the same in value, but which he would prefer, as he thinks it would be more pleasant to you to live near Lady Conway elect. ❋ Unknown (1794)

Where the benefice was a vicarage an oath to reside upon his cure was in every case rigorously imposed upon the newly-appointed; and though the law did not sanction this in the case of rectors, yet not a single instance of a licence of non-residence occurs; the difficulty of finding substitutes was becoming daily more and more insuperable, and the penalty of deserting a parish without licence was a great deal too serious to be disregarded. ❋ Augustus Jessopp (1868)

Pkbania is another kind of benefice, and of greater circuit than a reftory; it hath under it certain chapels, and this Pkbaniay or digniias plebeia is faid to be a. church dignity, by interpreters. ❋ Unknown (1767)

The vow of poverty does not debar a religious from administering an ecclesiastical benefice which is conferred upon him, accepting sums of money to distribute for pious works, or assuming the administration of property for the benefit of another person (when this is consistent with his religious state), nor does it in any way forbid the fulfilment of obligations of justice, whether they are the result of a voluntary promise — for the religious may properly engage to offer a Mass or render any personal service — or arise from a fault, since he is bound in justice to repair any wrong done to the reputation of another person. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

C. 1. means “À Paris, desserte des plats constituant un benefice pour les plongeurs [Vol. 4, p. 502],” maybe something akin to leftovers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dean Pearson used this benefice extremely effectively (after the example of his shrewd grandfather) to enrich himself and his family, before coming under the notice of the authorities in 1649, who forced him by Act of Parliament to lend his money to the public purse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1337 King Edward III of England limited the wearing of fur to the royal family, to "Prelates, Earls, Barons, Knights and Ladies," and to church officials who had a yearly benefice of at least one hundred pounds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The latest surviving evidence of his life suggests that he may have returned to the north: he was appointed next in succession in the dioceses of Cambrai and Tournai on 1 November 1515 by Pope Leo X, who offered him a benefice of 200 gold ducats a year in reward for his longstanding services as a ‘cantor et capellanus’ in the papal choir. ❋ Lu (2009)

According to the 1540 list, Crecquillon was granted a benefice in Termonde and expectatives in Béthune and Turnhout. ❋ Lu (2009)

He also enjoyed a relatively important benefice as canon of the collegiate church of Sainte Gertrude in Nivelles. ❋ Lu (2009)