benedictus

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Scabious, Wood-betony, Brown-mayweed, Mints, Avence, Tormentil, Carduus benedictus, and Rosemary as much as of anything else, and Angelica if you will.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Benedictus! why benedictus? you have some moral in this Benedictus.

From Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare, William

Carduus benedictus, honeysuckle, woodbine, oak, orange, rose, sedges, willow.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

And the other part of the choir answered: "Et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus."

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

In greater doses they invert the motions of the stomach and lacteals; and hence vomit or purge, as carduus benedictus, rhubarb.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus