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Definition of: benefice
(ben′ə·fis) noun
1. An ecclesiastical living or preferment; a church office endowed with funds or property.
2. The revenue so devoted: generally limited to parsonages, rectories, vicarages, and donatives.
3. A feudal fee or life interest in a landed estate, subject to the will of the donor.
—v.t. ·ficed, ·fic·ing To invest with a benefice. [<OF <L beneficium favor]
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