Beneficed
[bɪnefɪkd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Benefice
(a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
Typist: Mag
Examples
- Having a contempt for curates, whom he always called understrappers, he was resolved to be buried by a beneficed clergyman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That is the well-beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified, he ended, smiling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Plenty of beneficed clergy are poorer than they will be. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Mag