beneficial (cial as shal), benefic i all, benyfycyall

& s. [Lat. bene ficium (1) well-doing, (2) a distinction, a favour, a grant, (3) a privilege; bene = well, and facio = to do.] A. As adjective: L. Ordinary Language: 1. Advantageous, profitable, helpful, fitted to confer benefits upon, or actually doing so. (Used with to of the person benefited, or standing alone.) "The war, which would have been most beneficial to us and destructive to the enemy, was neglected."Swift. 2. Kind, generous. "... a beneficial foe."-B. Jonson. 3. Medicinal, remedial. "In the first acce of such a disease, any deobstruent without much acrimony is beneficial." Arbuthnot . II. Old Law : Of or belonging to a benefice. the directioun of lettrez of horning in bene Act all mater is general lie aganis all and sindrie, quhairby it occurris dalie that the benefic it man his takismen ane or ma,.."-Acts Ja. VI ., 1592 (ed. 1814), р. 573. běn *B. As substantive: A benefice. "For that the groundwork is, and end of all, How to obtain a beneficial." Spenser: M. Hubb. Tale. n-e-fi-çial-ly (çial as shal), adv. [Eng. beneficial; -ly.] 1. Gen. In a beneficial manner, advantageously, profitably, helpfully, usefully. "There is no literary or perhaps no practical useful point of knowledge to which his literary researches could be more beneficially directed."- Pownall : On the Study of Antiquities , p. 68. 12. Spec . Feudal law or custom : In such a manner as one acts who holds a "benefice," and is consequently in subordination to another.