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English
Verb
beneficed
- simple past and past participle of benefice
Adjective
beneficed (not comparable)
- (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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