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- Incumbent - a. - Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
- Incumbent - a. - Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
- Incumbent - a. - Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
- Incumbent - a. - Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
- Incumbent - n. - A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
- Incumbently - adv. - In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.
- Crush - v. t. - To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
- Prop - v. - That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
- Spoliation - v. t. - The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
- Parson - n. - A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
- Vicar - n. - The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
- Creep - n. - A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
- Parsonage - n. - The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
- Incumbent - a. - Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
- Residence - n. - The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
- Incumbently - adv. - In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.