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beneficing

Variant of benefice

noun

  1. land held by a feudal tenant for services rendered the owner
  2. an endowed church office providing a living for a vicar, rector, etc.
  3. its income

transitive verb beneficed, beneficing

to provide with a benefice

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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