benedicite
Example Sentences
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Marie de Clairvaut trembled from anxiety and apprehension, and only returned the friar's benedicite by an inclination of the head and an assurance that she did not stand in need of the consolation he offered.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
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
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
The monks said their benedicite and ate what was set before them.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
