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Webster 1913 Edition


Beneficed

Ben′e-ficed

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Adj.
Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
Beneficed clergymen.”
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Beneficed

BEN'EFICED

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Adj.
Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Definition 2024


beneficed

beneficed

English

Verb

beneficed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of benefice

Adjective

beneficed (comparative more beneficed, superlative most beneficed)

  1. (Christianity) Having a benefice
    • 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals:
      Sir Wycherly was not a hard drinker, like Dutton; but he was a fair drinker, like Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day.
    • 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner:
      I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.