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1623. Marston, Duchess of Malfi, III. ii. No question but many an unbenefic’d scholar Shall pray for you for this deed.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1709), 50. There would be a strange Improvement in the unbeneficed Clergy, if they had a better Salary.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XIV. viii. The brother … married the daughter of an unbeneficed clergyman.
1828. Q. Rev., XXXVII. 39. Some hoary, unbeneficed Oxonian unburthening his heart in a garret.
1884. Gentl. Mag., Feb., 106. Me the unbeneficed and insignificant, with my wretched pittance of £80 per annum.
