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The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

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  1. n. The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
  2. n. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
  3. The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.
  4. The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; thecorrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice formoney or reward. Piers Plowman.
  5. n:100 n. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments