benedicite

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The great transverse arches are inscribed on their western sides from the Benedicite: "Omnes volucres cœli."

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

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

Ante prandium Sacerdos benedicturus mensam, incipit, Benedicite, et alii repetunt, Benedicite.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various

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

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