Benedict
['benɪ,dɪkt]
Definition
(noun.) Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547).
(noun.) United States anthropologist (1887-1948).
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Benedick
(a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Married man.
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Definition
n. a common name for a newly married man esp. a bachelor who has long held out against marriage but at last succumbed—from Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing.—adj. blessed: benign.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A married male.
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Examples
- I am glad you think I was born to please you:--No, 'to amuse' was the phrase, and, as Benedict says, there is a double meaning in that. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why do We Call a Man a Benedict When He Marries? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the year 1882 Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict obtained control of the machine, and during the fourteen years following it is said that nearly 200,000 Remingtons were made and sold. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Break thy chain, said Benedict, for the true servant of God is chained not to rocks by iron, but to righteousness by Christ. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now the monastic organization of Benedict was a very great beginning in the western world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such were Gregory I (590-604) the Great, the first monkish Pope, the friend of Benedict, the sender of the English mission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And next to the discouragement of solitary self-torture it is Benedict's distinction that he insisted upon hard work. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their equipment makes the contemporary resources of Saint Benedict or Cassiodorus seem very pitiful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A third remarkable thing about Benedict was his political influence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the central figures in the story of the development of monasticism in Europe is Saint Benedict, who lived between 480 and 544. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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