Benefice

['benɪfɪs] or ['bɛnɪfɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an endowed church office giving income to its holder.

(verb.) endow with a benefice.

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解釋/意思:

(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.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Ecclesiastical living.

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解釋/意思:

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.

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