单词 | ecclesiastical living |
释义 | > as lemmasecclesiastical (also spiritual) living 2. Christian Church. A position as a vicar, rector, or other church official, conferring property or income or both; a benefice. More fully ecclesiastical (also spiritual) living. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] benefice1340 livingc1426 benefit1554 church living1592 endowment1597 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 36 A mon to haue iiij benefyse anoder no lyuyng; Þis is not Godys wyle. 1465 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 241 (MED) Please hit therfor your moste gracious Lordship to provyde for me of sufficient lyvyng to the chirch of Bersted. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. I.iii They scratched and scraped all the lyuynges of the churche, and vnder a couloure of relygyon turned it to theyr owne proper gayne and lucre. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 4/1 For the holding and reteinyng of all other spiritual lyuyngs whatsoeuer. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 110 When a man is to be preferred to an ecclesiastical living. 1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 28 They have two or three Livings apiece. 1680 Countess of Manchester in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 217 He haveing a great many very good liveings in his gifft. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. 1 Pet. v. 3 To take a Living only to get a Living, is an horrid Impiety. 1707 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 4) ii. x. 600 When any Person is presented..to any..Living Ecclesiastical. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 104 My father..was possessed of a small living in the church. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xvi. 181 The late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best living in his gift. View more context for this quotation 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 532 At the time of the Restoration..he had held a living in Kent. 1884 J. Bright in Times 5 Aug. 10/4 The 500 peers are possessors of not less..than 4000 livings of the Church of England. 1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy xiii. 191 I had recently come to know an old, dirty, gabbling, tragic, Irish parson who had long since lost his faith but retained his living. 2001 Oxoniensia 65 448 In 1782 he nominated his son-in-law to the living of Aston-sub-Edge. < as lemmas |
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