benedicite
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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
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
Who will place A veil between me and the fierce in-throng Of her inexorable benedicite?
From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by William Vaughn Moody
Pietro pretended to consent, and began, to utter, by way of preface, the word "benedicite."
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Soft through her soul there crept The echo of a benedicite, Enwrapping her in calm, triumphant peace.
From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask
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