benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: benedicts
form: benedicting
form: benedicted
form: benedicted
Etymology: From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.
Senses: examples: text: Now, dis explanation o' de rose dance ain't on my own account, for I des' now tol' yer dat, so far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't make no diff'ence to me if I'd 'a' been requi'ed to go to hell for her — I'd 'a' went — in joy — for de fulfilment o' de love which Gord A'mighty done benedicted my heart wid.
ref: 1905, Ruth McEnery Stuart, The Second Wooing of Salina Sue, and Other Stories, page 181:
text: Rukmini, the goddess of fortune, was already personally obliged to stay as a guest in the brahmana's house in order to benedict him with great fortune.
ref: 1979, Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī, A handbook for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, page 168:
text: As a result of this act he was benedicted with more honours by the Mughal court.
ref: 1983, Kalyan Kumar Ganguli, Cultural History of Rajasthan, page 54:
text: George Washington benedicted the Hebrew congregation in Savannah using the example of Israel as a paradigm for America: May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in a promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people, whose God is Jehovah.
ref: 1994, Charles Brock, Mosaics of the American Dream, page 41:
text: At the beginning of the nineties, especially during the Peterle government, it seemed as if ecclesiastic figues would start appearing and benedicting public events. After certain protests were made, especially after the opening of a motorway was benedicted, this practice seems to be fading away.
ref: 1999, Facta Universitatis: Series philosophy and sociology:
text: The spiritually mature person interacts with others for the purpose of benedicting them spiritually, not for his own social or psychological needs.
ref: 2001, Leslie Reynolds, Spiritual Maturity: The Whole Elephant, page 150:
text: Fancy Penney was then called upon to benedict them all home in blessing and safety.
ref: 2013, Rick Cox, Orphan Moon, page 105:
antonyms: maledict#Verb
glosses: to bless.
examples: text: His pancakes were never just ordinary pancakes: they were airy creations mushroomed in sauce, or they were crepes suzette. Eggs were shirred, mornayed or benedicted.
ref: 1965, The Reader's Digest - Volume 86, page 246:
text: I love thee raw, baked, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, poached, scrambled, sauteed, fried, shirred, deviled, creamed, curried, coddled, glazed, pickled, Benedicted, or Scotched . . . in omelets and souffle/s and quiches of infinite variety ...in mayonnaise and hollandaise and be/arnaise. . .
ref: 1985, Hans Fisher, Eugene Boe, The Rutgers Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol, page 59:
text: I can scramble them, poach them, Benedict them, and make them into omelets.
ref: 2003, Beth Goldner, Wake: Stories, page 107:
glosses: To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
raw_tags: of eggs