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Answer for the clue "Beneficiary ", 7 letters:
heritor
Word definitions for heritor in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another [syn: heir , inheritor ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A heritor was a privileged person in a parish in Scots law . In its original acceptation, it signified the proprietor of an heritable subject, but, in the law relating to parish government, the term was confined to such proprietors of lands or houses as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heritor \Her"it*or\, n. [Cf. LL. her?ator, fr. L. heres an heir.] A proprietor or landholder in a parish. [Scot.]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who inherits; an heir or heiress 2 (context Scotland English) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Usage examples of heritor.
Many of the heritors considered me a blackneb, though I knew it not, but went on in the course of my duty, thinking only how best to preserve peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
Prince Heritor of Cathra, the richest and most powerful of the island realms, Conrig idolized his remote ancestor Emperor Bazekoy, the towering personality who first vanquished the great Continental nations of Foraile, Andradh, and Stippen, then set out to wrest control of Blenholme from the Salka and the other nonhuman monsters who had inhabited the place since the dawn of time.
They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.
I could have blessed the priest or the heritors, or whoever may be concerned with such affairs in France, who had left these sweet old bells to gladden the afternoon, and not held meetings, and made collections, and had their names repeatedly printed in the local paper, to rig up a peal of brand new, brazen, Birmingham-hearted substitutes, who should bombard their sides to the provocation of a brand-new bell-ringer, and fill the echoes of the valley with terror and riot.