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_ Domine, voc. of Dominus) still familiarly applied to schoolmasters, who were of course originally invariably clergymen.] [Footnote 165: A Conventual is a member of some monastic order attached to the regular service of a church, or (as would nowadays be said) a "beneficed" monk.] [Footnote 166: _Sic.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

Just while this disappointment was bearing heavy on his spirits, Butler comes before his imagination — no longer the half-starved threadbare usher, but fat and sleek and fair, the beneficed minister of

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors.

The Claverings 2005

A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of — -; let us call it Barchester.

The Warden 2004

“Poor as I am,” said Mr. Twemlow, now consulting with her, “and poor as every beneficed clergyman must be, if this war returns, I would rather have lost a hundred pounds than have heard what you tell me, Maria.”

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

He said something about tradition; more of the many learned men who by their practice had confirmed the present arrangement; then went at some length into the propriety of maintaining the due difference in rank and income between a beneficed clergyman and certain poor old men who were dependent on charity; and concluded his argument by another reference to the archdeacon.

The Warden 2004

The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England.

Tales of all countries 2004

There were many in the city who could never be persuaded that Dorothy had refused him, these being, for the most part, ladies in whose estimation the value of a husband was counted so great, and a beneficed clergyman so valuable among suitors, that it was to their thinking impossible that Dorothy Stanbury should in her sound senses have rejected such an offer.

He Knew He Was Right 2004