benedictadj.n.
/ˈbɛnɪdɪkt/ a. Blessed, benign, salutary; spec. in Medicine mildly laxative. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [adjective]
goodOE
winlyOE
snella1000
winc1275
boonc1325
cleana1375
tidya1375
positivea1398
comelyc1400
kindc1400
kindly?a1425
well-formeda1425
trim?a1513
wally?a1513
bonnya1525
delicatea1533
goodlike1562
sappy1563
bein1567
rum1567
benedict1576
warrantable1581
true (also good, sure) as touch1590
goodlisomea1603
respectable1603
clever1738
amusing1753
plummy1787
bone1793
brickish1843
mooi1850
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greatisha1871
healthy1878
popular1884
beefy1903
onkus1910
quies1919
cushty1929
high-powered1969
not shabby1975
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative
outrunningeOE
laxativea1398
purgativea1398
openinga1400
abstersive?a1425
purging?c1425
solublec1503
minorative1543
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benedict1576
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dejective1605
relaxative1611
subductory1620
calastic1621
aperient1626
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relaxant1651
spurginga1652
cathartical1656
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ecphractic1657
ecphractical1657
rhyptical1657
rhyptic1659
loosening1665
eccathartic1681
fluxing1702
chalastic1704
loosinga1722
hypactic1753
evacuatory1789
evacuant1800
relaxatory1925
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 219 The Oyle Benedick, or Oyle of Tyle stones.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §19 Rhubarb and other Medicines that are benedict.
1657 J. Goodwin Βασανισται 4 That the two Commissions specified be..benedict to the interest of the Gospel.
a1693 W. Sancroft Serm. 110 (T.) If the more benign and benedict medicines will not work.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > person in minor orders > exorcist > [noun]
benetc1383
exorcist1564
priest benedict1660
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 160 in Justice Vindicated No Priest, whether consecrate at [? or] Benedict shall forsake his Church.
B. n. † 2. ‘A good saying, an honest report.’ Blount Glossogr. 1656.
1. A newly married man; esp. an apparently confirmed bachelor who marries. [ < the character of that name in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing.]
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > newly married man
April gentleman1592
benedict1821
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 98 How dost thou Benedicke the married man? View more context for this quotation]
1821 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) VI. 313 Wish the veteran joy of his entrance into the band of Benedicts.
1843 Life in West in R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. (1872) He is no longer a benedick, but a quiet married man.
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