different between benefice vs advocation

English

Etymology

From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?n?f?s/

Noun

benefice (plural benefices)

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) A favour or benefit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Baxter to this entry?)

3. (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.

Verb

benefice (third-person singular simple present benefices, present participle beneficing, simple past and past participle beneficed)

1. To bestow a benefice upon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bénéfice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?.n??fis/, /?be?.ne??fis/
• Hyphenation: be?ne?fice

Noun

benefice m or n (plural benefices)

1. (obsolete) An office, privilege or advantage
2. (obsolete) A charitative event or institution.

Latin

Etymology 1

From beneficus (“beneficent, generous”) +? -?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /be?ne.fi.ke?/, [b??n?f?ke?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be?ne.fi.t??e/, [b??n??fit???]

Adverb

benefic? (comparative beneficius, no superlative)

1. beneficently

Etymology 2

Adjective

benefice

1. vocative masculine singular of beneficus

References

• benefice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• benefice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin beneficium.

Noun

benefice m (oblique plural benefices, nominative singular benefices, nominative plural benefice)

1. (ecclesiastical) benefice
2. favour, advantage
3. benefit

English

Etymology

From Latin advoc?ti?. Doublet of advowson.

Noun

advocation (countable and uncountable, plural advocations)

1. (archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
2. (Britain, law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
3. (Scotland, law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

See also

• avocation

References

• advocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.