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(Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
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(Britain, ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.
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The first year's profits of a Catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the Pope.
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In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
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Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
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Relating to a benefice.
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Rare variant of benefice. [Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.]
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A person who is in receipt of (collated to) a benefice
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(ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
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(religion, obsolete) A vacant benefice commended to a cleric until an incumbent was provided.
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(obsolete) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
v
(transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection.
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(Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
v
To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
adj
(canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice.
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A mandate (given by the Pope or king) that confers the expectation of succession to a benefice
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A person who holds an honorary appointment.
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Alternative form of honorer [One who honors.]
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Archaic spelling of heritage. [An inheritance; property that may be inherited.]
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(figuratively) Benefice, lucrative position or possession.
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(Catholicism) A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows.
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(historical) The favouring of the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
adj
Relating to investiture.
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(law, obsolete) Alternative form of mort d'ancestor [(law, obsolete) A case or writ relating to the recovery of an inherited estate that has been taken or occupied by another party following the death of a relative.]
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A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
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(ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
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(ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
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(Britain, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
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(ecclesiastical, Anglicanism) To read about the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.
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(figuratively) A strict and just judge.
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(figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
adj
Of or pertaining to salvation.
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(Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism.
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(historical) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
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The property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.
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(in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
n
In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
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