benedicite

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The Benedicite is sung instead of the Te Deum; the Benedictus is recited in full, and the Collect for the First Sunday in Advent is used daily throughout the Season.

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

And have you got any good from learning the collects for Sunday and the Benedicite and the Athanasian Creed and the thirty-nine Articles?

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Sing about the cattle the Benedicite and some litanies and the Pater Noster.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

Perhaps in the dark corners the ghosts of confessed sins were lurking; above the spot where we knelt many a "Benedicite" had fallen upon humble hearts waiting to receive it.

From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Litsey, Edwin Carlile

From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From murder, Benedicite.

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas