Definitions for benefice

benefice ben·e·fice

Spelling: [ben-uh-fis]
IPA: /ˈbɛn ə fɪs/

Benefice is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in benefice (bceeefin).

Definitions for benefice

noun

  1. a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
  2. the revenue itself.
  3. the equivalent of a fief in the early Middle Ages.

verb (used with object)

  1. to invest with a benefice or ecclesiastical living.

Origin of benefice

1300-50; Middle English Middle French Latin beneficium service, kindness (benefic(us) benefic + -ium -ium)

Examples for benefice

His prayers for a benefice are sometimes grave and sometimes comic, but never-failing.

The benefice is a perpetual curacy, certified at £2 14s., and valued at £77.

And he has often commissioned his Almoner to find a benefice for me.

The benefice is a perpetual curacy, certified at 20s., and now valued at £102.

Mr. Griffiths was speedily released and restored to his benefice.

Commendatar, Commendator, who enjoys the rents of an Abbacy or other benefice.

If he is a clergyman, he shall be deposed from his office and deprived of every benefice.

They could not have told on which benefice to reside, for they held many.

Swift's benefice, in the diocese of Meath, two miles from Trim.

Whether any rector or vicar does not reside on his benefice.

Word Value for benefice
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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