beneficed

beneficed

1. simple past and past participle of benefice

beneficed (not comparable)

1. (Christianity) Having a benefice
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 35–37:

     a lewde curate,
     A parson benyfyced
     But nothynge well advysed.

   • 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals‎:

     Sir Wycherly was not a hard drinker, like Dutton; but he was a fair drinker, like Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day.

   • 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner‎:

     I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.