Definition of "beneficed"

a lewde curate,A parson benyfycedBut nothynge well advysed.

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, page 62, lines 35–37

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.

1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals‎

I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.

1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner‎