Word Meanings - COMMENDATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.

Related words: (words related to COMMENDATOR)

• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• BENEFICED
  Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.
• BENEFICENCE
  The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence.
• BENEFICE
  An estate in lands; a fief. Note: Such an estate was granted at first for life only, and held on the mere good pleasure of the donor; but afterward, becoming hereditary, it received the appellation of fief, and the term benefice became appropriated
• COMMENDAM
  A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was some sense
• BENEFICENTIAL
  Relating to beneficence.
• BENEFICELESS
  Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.
• IN COMMENDAM
  See PARTNERSHIP