Beneficially
conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful:
the beneficial effect of sunshine.
Law.
helpful in the meeting of needs:
a beneficial association.
involving the personal enjoyment of proceeds:
a beneficial owner.
Historical Examples
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda
History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 George Ticknor Curtis
The Kentons William Dean Howells
The Disowned, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution L. Carroll Judson
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The Fortunes Of Glencore Charles James Lever
Charmides Plato
Island Life Alfred Russel Wallace
adjective
(sometimes foll by to) causing a good result; advantageous
(law) entitling a person to receive the profits or proceeds of property: a beneficial interest in land
adj.
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