Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of benedict is as below...

Malediction :: Malediction (n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The act of blessing.

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..

Unblest :: Unblest (a.) Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched..

Cluniac :: Cluniac (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a..

Benedictionary :: Benedictionary (n.) A collected series of benedictions.

Benison :: Benison (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..

Benedict :: Benedict (n.) Alt. of Benedic.

Benedict :: Benedict (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

Benedictus :: Benedictus (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God..

Maurist :: Maurist (n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature..

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction..

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction..

Benedictine :: Benedictine (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet..

Black Monk :: Black monk () A Benedictine monk.

Benedictine :: Benedictine (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846..

Spinozist :: Spinozism (n.) The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God..

Blessing :: Blessing (v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces..

Random Fonts

Most Popular