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‖ benedicite, int. and n.|bɛnɪˈdaɪsɪtiː|
Also 4–5 bendicite, benste.
[L.; 2nd pl. imper. of benedīcĕre ‘to praise, commend,’ later ‘to bless, wish well to,’ f. bene well + dīcĕre to speak, say. In early use shortened to bendicite, benste.]
A. int.
1. as expressing a wish: Bless you!
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 397 He bygan benedicite with a bolke. 1393Gower Conf. I. 48 Benedicite, My sone..Thou shalt be shrive of bothe two. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iii. 39 Grace goe with you, Benedicite.
2. as expressing astonishment or remonstrance: Bless us! Good gracious!
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 780 What? liveth not thy lady, benedicite? c1386― Friar's T. 156 A! quod the sompnour, benedicite! what ye say. c1420Sir Amadace 647 Sir Amadas seyd Benedicite! Sir, leyt such wordes bee.
B. n.
1. Invocation of a blessing on oneself or others.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. in Farr S.P. (1848) 55 And all the way he went he ever blest With benedicities. 1808Scott Marm. ii. ii, One eyed the..swelling sail, With many a benedicite. 1823― Quentin D. ii, The friar answered his reverend greeting with a paternal benedicite.
2. esp. The blessing asked at table. (The earliest sense in English.)
a1225Ancr. R. 44 Bitweone mete, hwo se drinken wule, sigge benedicite: potum nostrum filius Dei benedicat. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. I. v. 208 The first [prayer] at the Beginning of the Repast..what we call Benedicite. 1842Mrs. Gore Fascin. 109 We may repent having laughed at the benedicite last night at supper!
†3. A blessing, deliverance from evil. Obs.
a1300Dame Siriz 193 Bendicite be herinne! c1314Guy Warw. 206 Gaf him swiche bendicite That he brak his nek ato. c1460Towneley Myst. 85 Benste, benste, be us emang.
4. The canticle in the Book of Common Prayer, known also as ‘The Song of the Three Children.’
c1661Papers on Alter. Prayer-bk. 3 You will not allow the omission of the Benedicite. |