Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BEN-E-FI'CIA-RY
BEN-E-FI'CIA-RYBEN-E-FI'CIEN-CY
BEN-E-FI'CIA-RY, n.
- One who holds a benefice. A beneficiary is not the proprietor of the revenues of his church; but he has the administration of them, without being accountable to any person. The word was used, in the middle ages, for a feudatory, or vassal. – Encyc.
- One who receives any thing as a gift, or is maintained by charity. – Blackstone.
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