"Beneficient" is a word in ENGLISH

A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered ln quare impedit, addressed to the …

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) …

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of pre-seutlng a fit …

Fr. In French feudal law. An allodial estate, as distinguished from a feudal estate or benefice

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.

In ecclesiastical law. First-fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year’s …

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.

The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice …

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

In ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice

Favorable; beneficent.

An estate in lands; a fief.

A favor or benefit.

To endow with a benefice.

An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the …

In ecclesiastical law. In its technical sense, this term includes ec-clesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, …

Fr. In French law. A benefit or advantage, and particularly a privilege given by the law rather than by the …