different between benefice vs annate

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

See ann.

Noun

annate (plural annates)

1. The first year's profits of a Catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the Pope.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 342:

     When he brings into the Commons a bill to suspend the payment of annates to Rome, he suggests a division of the House.

2. (Scotland, law) The half-year's stipend payable for the vacant half-year after the death of a parish minister, to which his family or nearest of kin have right under an act of 1672.

Italian

Noun

annate f

1. plural of annata

Latin

Verb

ann?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ann?