English English Dictionary

Favorable; beneficent.

A favor or benefit.

An estate in lands; a fief.

An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

To endow with a benefice.

of Benefice

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Having no benefice.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.

King.

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

of Beneficiary

One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.

A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.