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BEN'EFIT, n. [Primarily from L. beneficium, or benefactum.]

1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

Bless the Lord,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps.103.

2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property.

Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.

3. In law, benefit of clergy. [See Clergy.]

BEN'EFIT, v.t. To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or things; as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.

BEN'EFIT, v.i. To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.



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BEN'EFIT, n. [Primarily from L. beneficium, or benefactum.]

1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

Bless the Lord,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps.103.

2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property.

Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.

3. In law, benefit of clergy. [See Clergy.]

BEN'EFIT, v.t. To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or things; as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.

BEN'EFIT, v.i. To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.


BEN'E-FIT, n. [Primarily from L. beneficium, or benefactum; but perhaps directly from the Fr. bienfait, by corruption.]

  1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. – Ps. ciii.
  2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property. Men have no right to what is not for their benefit. – Burke.
  3. In law, benefit of clergy. [See Clergy.]

BEN'E-FIT, n.

A play, the proceeds of which are for a particular person.


BEN'E-FIT, v.i.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.


BEN'E-FIT, v.t.

To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or thing, as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.


Ben"e*fit
  1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

    Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
    Ps. ciii. 2.

  2. To be beneficial to] to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.

    I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
    Jer. xviii. 10.

  3. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
  4. Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.

    Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.
    Burke.

  5. A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
  6. Beneficence; liberality.

    [Obs.] Webster (1623).
  7. Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

    [R.] "The benefits of your own country." Shak.

    Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.

    Syn. -- Profit; service; use; avail. See Advantage.

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Benefit

BEN'EFIT, noun [Primarily from Latin beneficium, or benefactum.]

1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psalms 103:2.

2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property.

Men have no right to what is not for their benefit

3. In law, benefit of clergy. [See Clergy.]

BEN'EFIT, verb transitive To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or things; as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.

BEN'EFIT, verb intransitive To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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