- 1聖職俸祿（教會用語：教區神職及其薪俸。不是日常的 benefit「好處／福利」）
In the Christian church, especially in older British and European use, a benefice is the post of a priest who looks after a parish — and the pay, and sometimes the house or land, that come with that post. For a long time a priest “held a benefice” the way someone today holds a job: the position, the income, and the duty to the people of that place were tied together. It is a church-history and church-law word, not an everyday one. You will meet it in books about the past, or in writing about how the church paid its priests. It is not the ordinary word benefit, which just means something that helps you. Though actually, both words grew from the same Latin idea of a “kindness” or “favour”; the church kept this older, special sense. There is also a rare old verb, to benefice, meaning to give someone such a post; almost nobody uses the verb now.
組成From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium (“a kindness, a favour”; later the church used it for this paid post). The rare verb takes the same path.
同家族的字
- benefitsame Latin beneficium, but benefit became the everyday word; benefice stayed in the church sense
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beneficenoun/ˈbɛnɪfɪs/
- 1
Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
- If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
- She saw how many, even of good men's children, profaned the ministry, […] that she was vehemently against addicting any to that office, that had not, besides good wits and parts, so great a love to God and souls, as to come to it with absolute self-denial, resolved to serve Christ at the dearest rates, and take his acceptance and the winning of souls for their benefice.
- 2
obsoleteA favour or benefit.
- 3
An estate in lands; a fief.
beneficeverb/ˈbɛnɪfɪs/
- 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.
- You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。