Burnet wisely refused to accept a benefice in the disturbed state of church affairs, but he wrote an audacious letter to Archbishop Sharp asking him to take measures to restore peace.
He has the benefice of the district of Tabuco, as he is as well acquainted with the Tagal language as are the Indians themselves; and he is loved by them, because he treats them with gentleness.
He last year obtained in competition the benefice of Santo Thomas, which is an allotment of Tagal Indians, as he knows their language very well.
He has the benefice of the district of Balayan, which he obtained in competition.
A minister in charge has the rights and powers of an incumbent in certain particulars, such as the choice of a churchwarden, and, if the benefice is vacant, but not if the incumbent is bankrupt, the appointment of the parish clerk.
Vacation of benefice by death, resignation, admission to other preferment, or deprivation.
The corrupt taking of any pension money or other benefit for the resignation or exchange of a benefice is prohibited by 31 Eliz.
And if the benefice is vacant at the time of the transfer, the transfer does not carry with it the right to present a clerk to fill up the existing vacancy.
A scale of curates' stipends where the incumbent is non-resident is provided by law, varying according to the annual value of the benefice and other circumstances, and the bishop may direct that the curate shall reside in the parsonage house.
Grace at Lambith of the unhealthinesse of his benefice as abovesayd, sayd my Lord, 'I doe not intend that you shall live there.
Which proved so pertinent and abundant that my lord put the question to him whether he would accept of a benefice which he was ready, glad, and willing to bestow on him for his encouragement.
An ecclesiastical benefice committed to a temporary holder.
Commend, an ecclesiastical benefice committed to a temporary holder.
Much to himself he thought, but little spoke; And, undeprived, his benefice forsook.
He kept his promise--the chancellor presented the patent for the benefice to the astonished almoner!
My lord," replied the almoner, "is going to solicit a benefice of fifty thousand livres, before the emperor is informed of its being vacant.
The masters themselves were dependent upon fees for their livelihood; they were, at Bologna, frequently laymen with no benefice to fall back upon, and with wives and children to maintain.
On the one hand his poverty--his brothers to educate,--his benefice to be saved.
That very week, the first steps had been taken which were to drive this heretical and audacious priest from the office and benefice he had no right to hold, and had so criminally misused.
They were all pastors in the true sense, and every man of them knew that in a few months he would probably have lost his benefice and his prospects.
A benefice will do to begin your career with; and I must take care it is not too far from--what call you the place?
We are going out of curiosity, to know why she jilted us, and to show her it has not broken our hearts, and that we are quite content with our honours and our benefice in prospectu, and don't want her nor any of her fickle sex.
How could he tell her that he declined thebenefice she had got him, and declined it for the sake of that, which at his age she had despised and sacrificed so lightly?
The tie of the benefice or of commendation could be formed between any two persons whatever; none but the king could have antrustions.
The official magistracy had in itself the tendency to become hereditary, and when the benefice was recognized as heritable, the provincial governorship became so too.
The benefice of the dagger-bearership in the temple of Ishḫara, which he had formerly assigned to his mother, she has freely intrusted to his son B.
In the Code, the ilku, or duty from an estate held as the benefice of an office, was the fulfilment of the functions of the office.
The benefice was held by them for personal service.
This was ordered by the Code in case of purchases of property which it was illegal to sell or buy, such as the benefice of a reeve or runner.
Further, the official and his benefice were protected.
An official by neglecting the care of his benefice ran the risk of forfeiture.
When the purchase was illegal and void, as that of an officer’s benefice or of a ward’s property, the purchaser had to return his purchase and lose what he had paid for it.
The benefice of dagger-bearer (official slaughterer) in the Ishḫara temple he assigns to B.
The Papal treasury, under guise of annats, laid claim to the entire income of the bishopric or other benefice for the first year after each new appointment.
They could not have told on which benefice to reside, for they held many.
When, indeed, the fortunate man had a wife or was reluctant to assume the habit, he could readily get permission to place the benefice in the name of another, himself retaining the income.
It was proposed, therefore, to suspend the presentation to everybenefice in Ireland where the number of Protestants did not exceed fifty.
Anne, in the fifth and sixth years of her reign, if a benefice be under fifty pounds per annum clear yearly value, it shall be discharged of the payment of first-fruits and tenths.
Dispute not concerning some petty benefice with the same fury as the papacy was disputed in the great schism of the West.
The conferring of Holy Orders, or the presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward.
A form of conferring an ecclesiastical benefice on any clerk, by which he is exempt from presentation, induction, or institution; the patron acting virtually as a Bishop.
A benefice in the hands of a layman is termed, not an Appropriation, but an Impropriation.
The appointment to a benefice by a Bishop is called a collation.
The Bishop puts in force the law, and appoints sequestrators to take possession of the benefice and draw the emoluments, and pay them over to the creditor, first making due provision for the proper celebration of Divine Worship.
Canon 40 calls it "the detestable sin of simony," and every person on being instituted to a benefice has to swear that he is not guilty of it.
A clergyman can only be deprived of his benefice for want of capacity, Heresy, Contempt of Court, or crime.
Shortly afterwards he was appointed by Cardinal Bessarion to a benefice in Calabria, where the later years of his life were spent, and where he died about 1475.
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
Law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benefice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
