Benefice
['benɪfɪs] or ['bɛnɪfɪs]
解释:
(noun.) an endowed church office giving income to its holder.
(verb.) endow with a benefice.
贝茜手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A favor or benefit.
(n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
(n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
(v. t.) To endow with a benefice.
校对:路易丝
同义词及近义词:
n. Ecclesiastical living.
埃尔莎整理
解释:
n. any kind of church promotion or dignity esp. with cure of souls such as rectories vicarages and other parochial cures as distinguished from bishoprics deaneries cathedral preferments &c.: an ecclesiastical living.—adj. Ben′eficed possessed of a benefice.
休伯特校对
例句:
- In all presbyterian churches, the equality of authority is perfect; that of benefice is not so. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Having a contempt for curates, whom he always called understrappers, he was resolved to be buried by a beneficed clergyman. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- That is the well-beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified, he ended, smiling. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Plenty of beneficed clergy are poorer than they will be. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
本校对