Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Beneficent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beneficent.
- In astrology, of good or favorable influence.
- noun In astrology, a favorable planet; Jupiter or Venus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Favorable; beneficent.
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- adjective
Favorable ;beneficent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exerting a favorable or beneficent influence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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Every planet has a benefic or malefic effect according to its raashi and placement in a particular house.
Lal Kitab - A rare book on Astrology: English version of the original book in Urdu 2008
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While some like Rudra are figures of some fear or dread, representing difficult aspects of life such as death and suffering, even these can be propitiated and turned into benefic forces of light and love.
Vedic Pluralism and Biblical Monotheism Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Many times they have a record of consistent dividend payments, receive extensive media coverage and offer a host of other benefic ial investment attributes.
Options Glossary A-C 2006
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It covers pay and benefic -- issues, lifestyle issues, changes in policy that affect the life of service people, and I syndicate that to daily newspapers near military bases, so that they can get breaking news that affects soldiers, I hope fast every week.
Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War 2001
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