| 单词 | simple benefice |
| 释义 | > as lemmassimple benefice 19. Christian Church. Designating an ecclesiastical benefice not involving the cure of souls; = sinecure n. and adj. 1a. Chiefly in simple benefice. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > without cure of souls simplea1500 sinecure1662 a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 177 Ȝif a man hadde nede & fele hymself able he may askyn a symple benefyce withoutyn cure, for þat is no symonye. 1671 A. Woodhead Considerations Council of Trent xii. 199 Ecclesiastical Benefices, either simple, if one of them sufficient to maintain him, or with Cure, and requiring residence. 1769 W. Anderson Hist. France I. i. i. 9 There appear no vouchers..which prove the territorial grants made by them to be any other than simple benefices. 1875 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 6 Sept. 2/5 He has at least $8000 as Vicar of Rome, and fully as much more from sundry simple benefices. 2006 H. Rawlings in R. Pym Rhetoric & Reality Early Mod. Spain 33 The majority of these simple benefice holders..were either unordained or merely tonsured clerics. < as lemmas |
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