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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

“Beneficed clergymen.”

Burke.

Adj.

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

beneficed

beneficed ‎(comparative more beneficed, superlative most beneficed)

(Christianity) Having a benefice
- 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals:
  Sir Wycherly was not a hard drinker, like Dutton; but he was a fair drinker, like Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day.
- 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner:
  I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.