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BENEDICT a.
Having mild and salubrious qualities. [Obs.] Bacon.
BENEDICT; BENEDICK n.
A married man, or a man newly married.
BENEDICTINE a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
BENEDICTION n. 5 definitions
r affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:
BENEDICTIONAL n.
A book of benedictions.
BENEDICTIONARY n.
A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.
BENEDICTIVE a.
Tending to bless. Gauden.
BENEDICTORY a.
Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.
BENEDICTUS n.
The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.
BENEDIGHT a.
Blessed. [R.] Longfellow.
BENEFACTION n. 2 definitions
The act of conferring a benefit. Johnson.
BENEFACTOR n.
One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
BENEFACTRESS n.
A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.
BENEFIC a.
Favorable; beneficent. Milton.
BENEFICE n. 4 definitions
A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.
BENEFICED a.
Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.
BENEFICELESS a.
Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.
BENEFICENCE n.
tive goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.
BENEFICENT n.
, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.
BENEFICENTIAL a.
Relating to beneficence.
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