Usually means: Church position providing income, support.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. benefice: Merriam-Webster
  2. benefice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benefice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benefice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benefice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benefice, benefice: Wordnik
  7. benefice: Wiktionary
  8. benefice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. benefice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. benefice: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Benefice, benefice: Dictionary.com
  12. Benefice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Benefice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. benefice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. benefice: Rhymezone
  16. Benefice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. benefice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. benefice: FreeDictionary.org
  19. benefice: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. benefice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. benefice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Benefice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. benefice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BENEFICE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Benefice: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benefice: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Benefice: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See beneficed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
noun:  (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
noun:  (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
verb:  To bestow a benefice upon

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