benedicite
Example Sentences
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The Dominican, after muttering the benedicite, to which scarcely any one knew how to respond, began to serve the contents.
From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Come, my friends, let us have peace, and say our benedicite.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
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
A pilgrim came from o'er the sea; Benedicite! benedicite!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
