benedicite

Example Sentences

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The Capuchin had taken the same precaution, and followed Peregrine into the room, pronouncing benedicite, and crossing himself with many marks of astonishment.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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

Good-day, Brother Bulpett, here be two young kinsmen of Master Birkenholt to visit him; and so benedicite, fair sirs.

From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.

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

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