Benefice vs Beneficial - What's the difference?
benefice | beneficial |
Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
*, NYRB, 2001, vol.1, p.323:
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p.94:
(obsolete) A favour or benefit.
(feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
To bestow a upon
* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=George A. Stephen, title=Three Centuries of a City Library, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Horace Greeley, title=Glances at Europe, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you'' DO ''it? }}
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Helpful or good to something or someone.
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, title=
As a noun benefice
is profit.As an adjective beneficial is
helpful or good to something or someone.benefice
English
(wikipedia benefice)Noun
(en noun)- If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […].
- There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
- (Baxter)
Verb
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beneficial
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Adjective
(en adjective)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
