beneficed

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English

Verb

beneficed

  1. simple past and past participle of benefice

Adjective

beneficed (not comparable)

  1. (Christianity) Having a benefice
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 35–37:
      a lewde curate,
      A parson benyfyced
      But nothynge well advysed.
    • 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals:
      Sir Wycherly was not a hard drinker, like Dutton; but he was a fair drinker, like Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day.
    • 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner:
      I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.

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