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adj. - Not having an ecclesiastical office to which the revenue from an endowment is attached.

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  • During the interval which elapsed between his commercial reverses and the period of his physical debility, he prepared a novel, which he had early projected, depicting the...
  • The brother who now arrived had likewise been bred to trade, in which he no sooner saw himself worth L6000 than he purchased a small estate with the greatest part of it, and...
  • He was unbeneficed, having no time for parish work.
  • He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.
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