_ 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. ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)
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 ❋ Unknown (2007)
He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of ❋ Unknown (2007)
Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of — -; let us call it Barchester. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘Now that is, to say the least of it, an unseemly position for a beneficed clergyman.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When I heard that he had been bailed by a beneficed clergyman of this diocese, of course I knew where to look for the man who would act with so much impropriety. ❋ Unknown (2004)
How terrible it would be if a beneficed clergyman in the diocese should really be found guilty of theft by a jury from the city! ❋ Unknown (2004)
“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.” ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
It was not such a room as one would wish to see inhabited by an beneficed clergyman of the Church of England; but they who know what money will do and what it will not, will understand how easily a man with a family, and with a hundred and thirty pounds a year, may be brought to the need of inhabiting such ❋ Unknown (2004)
There were many in the city who could never be persuaded that Dorothy had refused him, these being, for the most part, ladies in whose estimation the value of a husband was counted so great, and a beneficed clergyman so valuable among suitors, that it was to their thinking impossible that Dorothy Stanbury should in her sound senses have rejected such an offer. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Rector and Curate, Boultby and Donne, headed it: the former, looming large in full canonicals, walking as became a beneficed priest, under the canopy of a shovel-hat, with the dignity of an ample corporation, the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These are said to have numbered about one-fifth of the beneficed clergy, a computation which does not seem excessive as Convocation had itself petitioned for the permission of marriage. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Clergy, to whom the King had sacrificed so much, should thus manifest their liberality; but indeed such contributions were not unusual, on the part of the beneficed clergy and dignitaries of the Church. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
The 14th article goes on to state, that all Christians may enjoy the political rights of the empire: 15th, "Other religions are hardly tolerated, and none but Christians shall enjoy political rights;" and the 16th declares the Roman Catholic religion to be that of the state, and the only one beneficed by the state. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
Did not you marry a low creature -- a vulgarian -- a tradesman's daughter? and your poor father such a respectable man -- a beneficed clergyman! ❋ Various (N/A)
It is generally agreed that he was a clergyman and a schoolmaster in Suffolk, but no one has mentioned in what parish of that county he was beneficed. ❋ Various (N/A)
