Benefices is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BENEFICES in dictionary:

VERB:
• BENEFICE, to endow with a benefice
NOUN:
• a permanent Church appointment, typically that of a rector or vicar, for which property and income are provided in respect of pastoral duties.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to endow with land

Words related to BENEFICES

benefice15 beneficed17 beneficing18

How to use BENEFICES in a sentence

• Giovanni actually undertook his duties as Archbishop by granting letters of appointment to benefices within his diocese.
• Anyhow, as to height, Frank knew himself to be of a height acceptable in benefices, and that was something.
• Those of the secular priests are divided into twelve benefices, among which are the three above-mentioned, namely, Manila, Bagumbaya, and Cavite.
• The benefices of secular priests, and the convents and residences of religious, above mentioned, are directed and instructed as follows.
• At last he paid his fifth, but, broken in health and spirits, he was of no mind to withstand the demands of the Roman clerks for benefices.
• Conforming priests are everywhere put in possession of the benefices of those who would not conform.
• In the same year, occurred a similar renunciation of three hundred and sixty benefices in Scotland.
• The bishopric of Nueva Segovia has four secular benefices, two of them for Spaniards, one in the said city of Nueva Segovia, and the other in Villa Fernandina.
• There are six secular benefices in the bishopric of Camarines, whose seat is in the city of Caceres.
• Scanty as was his income, the frequent offer of much better benefices could not tempt Mr.
• They were regarded as traitors by their brethren, though no steps were taken to prevent them from teaching their notions, nor to deprive them of their benefices and emoluments.
• It was in this way that the Roman Church was accustomed to sell out benefices as a divine right.
• Another evil, which was greatly aggravated by the multiplication of benefices in a single hand, was clerical poverty.
• For, among many other invasions of ecclesiastical privileges and property, this irregular practice of bestowing spiritual benefices on laymen began now to prevail.
• It was intended, indeed, under this bill, to give power to the privy-council to constitute new benefices in Ireland, of which they were likely to avail themselves to some extent.
• The whole payment to be made to the clergy of the 1250 benefices he calculated at L361,928, thus leaving a surplus of L97,612.
• When the power of appointing to benefices was usurped by the civil power, the emperor was sure to fill the highest places in his gift with creatures of his own.
• He scattered rich benefices lavishly among the clergy, lured on the soldiers of fortune with tempting bribes, and granted enviable privileges to the seaboard towns.
• The Lollard story opens with the disputes between the crown and the see of Rome on the presentation to English benefices.

Similar words containing BENEFICE without suffix s

benefice15 beneficed17 beneficent17 beneficence20 unbeneficed19 beneficences21 beneficently22 beneficential20

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