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beneficiary, a. and n.|bɛnɪˈfɪʃ(ɪ)ərɪ|
[ad. L. beneficiārius: cf. F. bénéficiaire and see -ary.]
A. adj.
1. Holding, held as, or pertaining to the holding of, a benefice: spec. to the holding of land by feudal tenure; feudatory.
a1626Bacon (J.), To be made a feudatory or beneficiary king of England, under the seignory in chief of the pope. a1641Spelman Feudes & Tenures xxv. (R.) Beneficiary services..done by the middling or lesser Thanes to the King and the greater Thanes. 1682Burnet Rights Princes vi. 218 Not so ancient as their Beneficiary Tenures. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 51 As if they had received their lands from his bounty..as pure, proper, beneficiary feudatories. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 147 Alodial lands are commonly opposed to beneficiary or feudal.
2. Of a kind by which one benefits or profits. rare.
1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. viii. (1852) 244 His justice..is not to be considered as the prosecutor of a beneficiary claim, but as an exactor from himself.
B. n.
1. The holder of a feudal ‘benefice’; a feudatory.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. 138 Wee (being their Beneficiaries or Free-holders for such Countries as wee held in France). 1654Lestrange King Chas. I, 121 He demanded from the Prince..that he..should repute himself as his Beneficiary and Vassal. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 199 The legislature, looking upon vassals as proprietors, and not merely as beneficiaries. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 131 The great beneficiaries, the most wealthy and potent families in Neustria or France.
2. The holder of an ecclesiastical living.
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1738 I. 77 Your Beneficiaries the Priests. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 112 If it [a benefice] be annex'd to another Benefice, the Beneficiary is obliged to serve the Parish Church in his own proper Person. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. Introd. 39 The subordinate beneficiaries of his Church.
3. One who receives benefits or favours; a debtor to another's bounty.
1662W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1627) Ep. Ded. 3, I rest, your thankfull, and most obseruant Beneficiary. 1663Baxter Div. Life 14 We are his Children as he is our Father; or his obliged Beneficiaries as he is our Benefactor. 1856Olmsted Slave States 606 Another young man, who looked like a beneficiary of the Education Society. 1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. vii. 65 Content to be a beneficiary of society—to receive favors and confer none. |