What is "unbeneficed"

Usage examples of "unbeneficed".

What was good enough for the dean, must be far more than good enough for an unbeneficed curate!

Mr Martin, when he was an unbeneficed clergyman, had worked for the booksellers of London, an apprenticeship in many ways harsher still.

During the interval which elapsed between his commercial reverses and the period of his physical debility, he prepared a novel, which he had early projected, depicting the trials and sufferings of an unbeneficed preacher.