benedicite

Example Sentences

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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

I don't know—I only know that meaning no disrespect, no irreverence, I could have sung aloud from the Benedicite: "Omnia opera Domini!"

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara

The citoyenne Gamelin set the soup on the table, said the Benedicite and seated her son and her guest at the board.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie

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

Below the angels with their outstretched arms in the pendentives the western sides of the great transverse arches have inscriptions from the Benedicite, and on their eastern from Romans i.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Dimock, Arthur