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Benefice vs Plenarty - What's the difference?

benefice | plenarty |

As nouns the difference between benefice and plenarty

is that benefice is land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it while plenarty is the state of a benefice when occupied.

As a verb benefice

is to bestow a benefice upon.

benefice

English

(wikipedia benefice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
  • *, NYRB, 2001, vol.1, p.323:
    • If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […].
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p.94:
    • There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
  • (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
    • (Baxter)
  • (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.

    • Verb

    (benefic)
  • To bestow a upon
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=George A. Stephen, title=Three Centuries of a City Library, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you'' DO ''it? }} ----

    plenarty

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (legal, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied.
  • * 1982 : Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church , Robert E Rodes,
    • The plea that the benefice was full more than six months before the writ was purchased (called the plea of "plenarty" ) was a good affirmative defense.
  • * 1811 : The Law Dictionary , Giles Jacob, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins,
    • Plenarty', the abstract of the adjective ''plenus'', and is used in Common Law in matters of benefices, where a church is ''full'' of an incumbent; '''''Plenarty and vacation, or avoidance, being direct contraries.

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