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/bˌɛnəfˈɪʃiˌɛri/ Listen

noun

Beneficiary n. (pl. beneficiaries)

A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.

One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. "The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are."

adjective

Beneficiary adj.

Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. "A feudatory or beneficiary king of England."

Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.

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Etymology of 'Beneficiary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beneficiary" Quotes from Famous Books

... for himself at the same Park Theatre at which more than six years later the Garcia company, the first Italian opera troupe to visit the New World, performed it in Italian on the date already mentioned. At Mr. Phillipps's performance the beneficiary sang the part of Almaviva, and Miss Leesugg, who afterward became the wife of the comedian Hackett, was the Rosina. On November 21, 1821, there was another performance for Mr. Phillipps's benefit, and this time Mrs. Holman took the part ...

— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... Union was a war of subjugation, and whoever took part in it was stigmatised. "The proposition to subjugate," said the Examiner, "comes from the metropolis of the North's boasted conservatism, even from the largest beneficiary of Southern ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... our good friend, Captain Pardee, I send you this letter, together with an instrument, the date of which you will observe is the same as that of my former letter. You will see that I have regarded myself only as a trustee and a beneficiary, during life, of your self-denying generosity. The day after I received your gift, I gave the plantation back to you, reserving only the pleasing privilege of holding it as my own while I lived. The opportunity which I then hoped might some time come has now ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... was saying, "the bank was finally able to make an arrangement by which the long deadlock was broken and Clark's Field could be sold—put on the market in small lots, you know. Owing to a very fortunate provision, you are the beneficiary of one half of the sales made by the Field Associates, as the corporation is called—whenever they dispose of any of it they pay us ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... come by hand. (He reads it) "199, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Dear Sir, I have pleasure to inform you that under the will of the late Mr. Antony Clifton you are a beneficiary to the ...

— First Plays • A. A. Milne

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