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Advowson
noun · 78% connection
The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Aretaics
noun · 78% connection
The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
As
adv. & conj. · 78% connection
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Beneficiary
noun · 78% connection
A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Boatswain
noun · 78% connection
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Commendator
noun · 78% connection
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Converse
noun · 78% connection
A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Deacon
noun · 78% connection
An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Descent
noun · 78% connection
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Dictator
noun · 78% connection
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Donative
noun · 78% connection
A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Drawboy
noun · 78% connection
A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Esquire
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Ex officio
unknown · 78% connection
From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Hypocrite
noun · 78% connection
One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who fe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Impetration
noun · 78% connection
The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Induct
verb · 78% connection
To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any ot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.
Investment
noun · 78% connection
The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invested, title, virtue, holds, office.