Benefice

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

(verb.) endow with a benefice.

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• 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.

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