ANNATES
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The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
By Oddity Software
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The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
By Noah Webster.
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In ecclesiastical law. First- fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year's profit was taken as their rate.
By Henry Campbell Black