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Example sentences for "beneficed"

Lexicographically close words:
benefactions; benefactor; benefactors; benefactress; benefice; beneficence; beneficent; beneficently; benefices; beneficia
  1. And that graduates and beneficed men find surety for their good behaviour.

  2. Canon 1473 on the Disposition of Superfluous Wealth by Beneficed Clergy.

  3. According to Canon Law all beneficed clergy (Cardinals excepted) must give all the superfluous fruits of their benefice to charitable or pious causes (Canon 1473).

  4. Likewise the cleargie granted, that of euerie beneficed man, the king should haue twelue pence, and of euerie priest not beneficed foure pence (the foure orders of friers onelie excepted.

  5. The beneficed clergy are indeed accused of sometimes running away from their own poor benefices to take engagements of this sort.

  6. In 1391, the dean and chapter made a regulation that henceforth no beneficed person should hold a chantry in St. Paul's excepting their own minor canons.

  7. Whether any men beneficed or in sacred orders are married (uxorati).

  8. Beneficed clergymen had a freehold in their benefices, and therefore a legal claim for provision in old age, not so with unbeneficed men; but we meet with a few examples of kindly care for them.

  9. This Testimonial must be subscribed by three beneficed clergymen.

  10. Over this Rural Deanery some beneficed clergyman, usually appointed by the Bishop, presides.

  11. These chosen clergy are called proctors, and are elected by the votes of the beneficed clergy.

  12. The beneficed clergy are beautifully housed, with gardens and stables, and all the appointments of gentlemen; but the "livings" are not fat.

  13. Samuel Gardner, a beneficed clergyman of the Established Church, is over 50.

  14. Thirdly, all beneficed clergy were required to submit themselves to free election at the hands of laymen, and to undertake the discharge of their holy office only after swearing a solemn oath to obey the rules of the new Constitution.

  15. 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.

  16. In fact, he was called, by a beneficed clergyman, 'the most notorious schismatic in all the county of Bedford.

  17. When his Lord's design in Christianity was, as he thought, perverted by a beneficed clergyman, then he sent forth from his prison an answer as from a son of thunder, even at the risk of his life.

  18. Don't look so unhappy, old fellow; University men and beneficed clergy, like you, think much of what I was inured to long ago.

  19. Plenty of beneficed clergy are poorer than they will be.

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

  21. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies?

  22. The payment of first-fruits was imposed on all secular dignitaries and beneficed clergymen, abbots and priors being for the time exempted.

  23. The following is too interesting to omit:--'A beneficed man of mine own promotion came unto me weeping and desired me that he might declare his mind unto me without my displeasure.

  24. But in the last century the beneficed clergy were in a very different pecuniary condition from that which they at present enjoy.

  25. The beneficed clergy were a comparatively poor body.

  26. Hamlets falling in the circumference of the city of Manila Outside and near the walls of the city lies the parish of Santiago where one beneficed secular has charge of all the Spaniards who live outside the said walls.

  27. The city has a Parián or alcaicería of Chinese who are in charge of a beneficed secular.

  28. The village of Quiapo, which lies on the other side of the river, is administered by the said beneficed secular.

  29. The village of San Antonio is also near the walls, and is in charge of a beneficed secular.

  30. The village called La Hermita, in whose temple is the venerated image of Nuestra Señora de Guia, is two musket-shots away from the walls of Manila, and is administered by a beneficed secular.

  31. To their teaching are indebted the majority of the beneficed clergy, secular priests, in the islands, besides many others who have entered the orders.

  32. In Catanduanes reside a beneficed curate and a corregidor.

  33. Inconvenient as it was, the practice of seeking the assent of local synods to taxation was necessary so long as the whole body of the beneficed clergy was not systematically represented in convocation.

  34. I saw that in almost every instance this account must of necessity be false, though coming from under the pen of a beneficed clergyman.

  35. They were to keep an open eye on the beneficed clergy, calling for the ejection of those who either showed tendencies favourable to the Book of Common Prayer, or brought disgrace by laxity of conduct on the Puritanism they professed.

  36. When Mr. Dodd proposed to me, Miss Warrender, he did so as a beneficed clergyman; and he proposed to the daughter of a dignitary of the Church.

  37. It was pleasant to be in Oxford again, a beneficed clergyman.

  38. Could Bonamy really be so foolish, he wondered, as to think he could get rid of a beneficed clergyman.

  39. What was a beneficed clergyman, whose dignity was young and tender, to do, subjected to the criticism of unknown dogs?

  40. Among many who were suspended in Norfolk and Suffolk, may be mentioned Mr. Lawrence, an eminent divine, who had been beneficed in the latter county.

  41. Mr. Robinson had been educated in the University of Cambridge, and beneficed near Great Yarmouth, in which neighbourhood he had also a separate congregation.

  42. In the port of Cavite, three leguas from Manila, there is a parochial church in charge of a beneficed secular priest.

  43. In the village of Bagumbaya, which is a suburb of this city, is the parochial church of Santiago, in charge of a beneficed secular priest.

  44. The said beneficed priest also ministers to two thousand four hundred Indians and some slaves and people of various nations, who number about four hundred.

  45. I have often stopped even clerks of other parts, beneficed in our bishopric, from daring to make themselves beholden to secular patronage in public offices, such as forest diversion, and other like administrations.

  46. On the contrary, some of them helped him so heartily that, if they had not been tied by the court, he would have loved to have beneficed them in the diocese.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beneficed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.