What is "beneficed"

Usage examples of "beneficed".

I had tried three doctors--took over one dozen bottles of patent medicines, without relief.

It was the cry of the high beneficed clergy, to prevent any regulation of income taking place between those of ten thousand pounds a-year and the parish priest.

Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---.

Her Established Church and her beneficed clergy will take up one evening, some Skulkers in Mansoul another, the devil's last prank another, and then, to wind up with, Emmanuel's last speech and charge to Mansoul from his chariot-step till He comes again to accomplish her rapture.

Touching hospitality, there was never any greater used in England, sith by reason that marriage is permitdted to him that will choosed that kind of life, their meat and drink is more orderly and frugally dressed, their furniture of household more convenient and better looked unto, and the poor oftener fed generally than heretofore they have been, when only a few bishops and double or treble beneficed men did make good cheer at Christimas only or otherwise kept great houses for the entertainment of the rich, which did often see and visit them.

There were many in the city who could never be persuaded that Dorothy had refused him these being, for the most part, ladies in whose estimation the value of a husband was counted so great, and a beneficed clergyman so valuable among suitors, that it was to their thinking impossible that Dorothy Stanbury should in her sound senses have rejected such an offer.

He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman.

Having a contempt for curates, whom he always called understrappers, he was resolved to be buried by a beneficed clergyman.