It is his duty also to induct the clergy of his archdeaconry into the temporalities of their benefices after they have been instituted into the spiritualities by the bishop or his vicar-general.
And since the dispensation of spiritualities is directed chiefly to the common good, according to 1 Cor.
Footnote 202: Endowing the Order of Christ with the Spiritualities of these islands.
Temporalities, in short, are real property, andspiritualities are fees and perquisites.
The Popes claimed to have the right of appointment to both the spiritualities and the temporalities, and gave expression to these claims in the Bulls of appointment.
The distinction between temporalities and spiritualities is a technical one and there was sometimes little difference between the sources of the two kinds of income, but the temporal revenues were usually larger[279].
This valuation, called the "Taxation of Pope Nicolas," took cognizance of both the temporalities and the spiritualities of the clergy, and was used as the basis for ecclesiastical taxation until the sixteenth century.
A grant of the tenths of spiritualities was made him by Innocent in 1252.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritualities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
