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plural portionists
One of the incumbents of a benefice that has two or more rectors or vicars. examples
(historical) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, England, who has a certain academical allowance or portion. quotations
Curates would in fact become Portionists and Incumbents , with a legal status and an independent position within the limit of their appointed jurisdiction
1867, Orby Shipley, The Church and the World