benedicite

Example Sentences

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‘While Father Fontesecco is in the first stage of beatitude, chanting through his nose the Benedicite, I will attempt,’ said Guiberto, ‘to comfort Monna Tita.’

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Which when they had caused him to say Benedicite, the curate bad hym crye God mercy and shewe to hym his synnes.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

The Benedicite takes the place of the Te Deum and the Ash Wednesday Collect is used every day throughout the Season.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

Benedicite is taken from the Apocryphal Book of "The Song of the Three Children" and has been used from very ancient times as a hymn in Christian Worship.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

Then to my lodgings driving with me back, He left me with a Benedicite!

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes