benefice

Etymology

From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.

noun

1. Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
   There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness. 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 94
2. (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
3. (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.

verb

1. To bestow a benefice upon
   There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn. 1917, George A. Stephen, Three Centuries of a City Library
   You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it? 1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe