benedicite

Example Sentences

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The monks said their benedicite and ate what was set before them.

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von

The cenobite gave him a grim smile, but merely added his benedicite and passed on.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

The requirements of the metre in this and other passages of Chaucer, show that benedicite was sometimes contracted, in the pronunciation, to ben'cite.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

I welcome this solemn old brotherhood, which stand gray-bearded, like monks, old, dark, solemn, sighing a certain mournful sound—like a benedicite through the leaves.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

He obtained an interview with the Pope, very ceremonious; and dined with a French cardinal, where the benedicite and repetitions of grace, very long, were recited antiphonally by two chaplains.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight