(a) A helpful or friendly action, a kindness; also, a series of helpful acts, friendly behavior toward someone; don ~, do (sb.) a favor, benefit (sb.), treat with kindness; (b) a meritorious action, good deed, act of piety; esp., a service by which one acquires spiritual merit to be applied to one's own or another's salvation; also, a series of good deeds, meritorious conduct, well-doing; receven in benefetes, to make (sb.) a partaker of the spiritual rewards earned by the prayers, etc., of a monastic body; (c) of things: helpful effect, beneficial property.

(a) A beneficial thing, a gift, an advantage, a boon; yeven ~, give a gift, confer a benefit; (b) state of being benefited, advantage, profit; haven ~ of, benefit from (sth.); taken ~ of, take advantage of (sth.), profit by.