benedicite
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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 Alexander Pope
And here again Chaucer has brought his own experience, though half in jest, as a parallel to the sack of Ilion and Carthage or the burning of Rome— So hideous was the noise, benedicite!
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
Thou hast in thee nor agility nor benedicite nor thinkest thou of aught save meat and sleep.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
A pilgrim came from o'er the sea; Benedicite! benedicite!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
The King, awaking at peep of day, called to mind the vision of the night, and returning thanks to the Almighty, made his orisons and kneeling invoked a benedicite.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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