Difference between revisions of "Beneficiary"
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== Webster's | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_92406" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (a.) [[Holding]] some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (a.) [[Bestowed]] as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) [[A]] feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24548" /> == | |||
<p> in ecclesiastical usage, is the clerk in orders who receives the temporal benefit of an endowment. </p> | |||
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Revision as of 01:13, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
(2): (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
(3): (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.
(4): (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
in ecclesiastical usage, is the clerk in orders who receives the temporal benefit of an endowment.
