different between benefice vs datary

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?t??i/

Noun

datary (plural dataries)

1. (Roman Catholicism) an officer in the Roman Catholic Church who dispensed benefices

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