A beneficed clergyman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
Arts, then Bachelors in Theology, then Non-Regents, then beneficed. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Henry Walter was at one time tutor at Haileybury, and was also a beneficed clergyman. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
‘Now that is, to say the least of it, an unseemly position for a beneficed clergyman.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
How terrible it would be if a beneficed clergyman in the diocese should really be found guilty of theft by a jury from the city!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of — -; let us call it Barchester. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Did not you marry a low creature -- a vulgarian -- a tradesman's daughter? and your poor father such a respectable man -- a beneficed clergyman!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
It is generally agreed that he was a clergyman and a schoolmaster in Suffolk, but no one has mentioned in what parish of that county he was beneficed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849] Reference
Bologna were not schoolboys; some of them were beneficed ecclesiastics, others were lawyers, and most of them were possessed of adequate means of living. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
When I heard that he had been bailed by a beneficed clergyman of this diocese, of course I knew where to look for the man who would act with so much impropriety. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Admirals] Reference
He takes not a ducat away from the revenues of her beneficed clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
(London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's. From Wordnik.com. [Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857] Reference
Of the nine thousand four hundred beneficed clergy only a tenth presented themselves before the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference
Consequently, the venerable clergy in these Islands have fifty-three beneficed curacies, which are new. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The two persons who knew me best at that time are still alive, beneficed clergymen, no longer my friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV] Reference
And Sir Edward Dering, being Chairman, said unto me that he was acquainted with a learned minister beneficed in. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther] Reference
His barons and beneficed men, his deemsters, knights, esquires, coroners, and yeomen, stood on the lower steps of the mount. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
The presumptuousness of the man in venturing to think of falling in love, as if he were actually one of the beneficed clergy!. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
Vicars, Clerks, and other beneficed men, having yearly to dispend an hundred pound, do not find, competently, one scholar in the. From Wordnik.com. [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference
Consequently, the clerics have fifty-three beneficed curacies, in the archbishopric of Manila and the three suffragan bishoprics. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
In the Western Lowlands, the beneficed clergy had been so effectually rabbled, that scarcely one of them had remained at his post. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
These beneficed rats, being arranged in two lines, you might have fancied them a procession of the university authorities going to Lendit. From Wordnik.com. [Droll Stories — Volume 2] Reference
Gladstone's speech as a pamphlet, and sent a copy, with a covering letter, to every beneficed clergyman in England, Scotland, and Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
One would have thought, to hear her discourse, she had dressed for dinner every night of her life, and passed her days in the society of the beneficed clergy. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
They contemplated the nomination of bishops by provincial synods; and affirmed that no beneficed clergyman ought to be deposed except by a sentence following judicial trial. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference
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