benedict

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And the worst of it is I used to attend service about every other Sabbath before I became a benedict, and Josephine taught a Sunday-school class up to within six months of our wedding ceremony.

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  1. noun A newly married man who was previously considered a confirmed bachelor.

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  • Another restaurant, not defunct, in our old hometown, and known as sort of the successor to the closed restaurant, has a variety of benedicts on the menu and I noticed the last time we were there that they have a florentine benedict-poached eggs nestled in wilted spinach. —  divine angst
  • On Sunday morning, Paul and I sat on Raincity's deck, watching the world walk and bicycle by while enjoying a delicious brunch of Dungeness crab eggs benedict, fresh berries with yogurt and meusli, and croissants and apricot scones with housemade mixed berry preserves. —  Music and Cats
  • Olive tree branches are carried during a procession prior to the start of an open-air Palm Sunday mass lead by Pope benedict XVI in St. Peter's square at the Vatican Sunday, April 5, —  IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
  • Irish benedict! huge portion of corned beef has on an english with poached smothered in hollandaise (could life be any better?!) and of course we will throw you some homefries to put you into a carb coma —  Knox
  • Chad ordered the eggs benedict, with the hollandaise sauce on the side. —  The Food Pornographer
 

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  1. After Benedick, a character in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.

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  1. In Middle English benedight, from Late Latin benedictus, blessed (in Middle Latin often as a proper name Benedictus, whence in English Benedict, Benedick, and (through F.) Bennet, Bennett; cf. also benet, bennet), past participle of benedicere, bless, use words of good omen, in class. L. always as two words, bene dicere: bene, well; dicere, say, speak.
 

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/ˈbɛnədɪkt/
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