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INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 369 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon) , a general
term
  for the holder (
rector
 ,
vicar
 ,
curate
  in charge) of an ecclesiastical
benefice
  (see
BENEFICE
 ). In
Scotland
  the title is generally confined to Clergy of the Episcopal Church. The word in this application is peculiar to
English
 . Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v. " Incumbens ") says that the Jurisconsulti use incumbere in the sense of oblinere, possidere, but the sense may be transferred from the general one of that which rests or is laid on one as a duty which is also found in post-classical Latin; to be " diligently
resident
  " in a parish or benefice, has also been suggested as the source of the meaning.


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