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Benedict


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Benedick
  • (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
  • (2) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (3) These results are compared to estimates of caloric requirements based on the Harris-Benedict equations, without modification for severity of disease or other factors.
  • (4) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
  • (5) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
  • (6) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
  • (7) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
  • (8) • What led the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI to order the cardinal's immediate resignation, suddenly last Monday, when it had known of the four men's allegations since early February?
  • (9) Thirty-one patients received 90% or more of their anabolic caloric requirement (Harris-Benedict equation) by means of TPN.
  • (10) He shot down rumours that Benedict Cumberbatch will play a role in the film but claimed Adam Driver would play a masked Sith-like character with cyborg elements.
  • (11) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (12) The REE was 1.3 times the predicted (by the Harris-Benedict equation) basal energy expenditure.
  • (13) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
  • (14) First of all, I would like to say a prayer for our bishop emeritus, Benedict XVI.Let us all pray together for him, let us all pray together for him so that the Lord my bless him and that the Madonna may protect him.
  • (15) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
  • (16) News that Pope Benedict had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh came after the Observer disclosed a series of allegations by three priests and one former priest.
  • (17) There was only a moderate correlation between measured resting energy expenditure and that predicted using the Harris-Benedict (r = 0.57) and Aub-Dubois (r = 0.59) formulae.
  • (18) His predecessor, Pope Benedict, appalled many traditional Catholics when he appeared to do so on his visit to Turkey eight years ago.
  • (19) Sherlock, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as Watson, was the top-rating show of the night.
  • (20) He argued that performing arts schools had become dominated by those from affluent, privately educated backgrounds, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne .

Benedictine


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
  • (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The aim of this study was to determine whether the austerely living Trappist and Benedictine monks have a lower prevalence of a number of risk factors and health problems than the general Dutch population.
  • (2) But he also said that "in every Benedictine there should be a disappointed Carthusian".
  • (3) The Benedictines were there long before the 16th-century Reformation, before even the schism of 1054 that divided the eastern and western church.
  • (4) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
  • (5) The Pope liked Benedictines and told Hume, when he demurred at the appointment, that he was asking him to accept "the call of the Lord."
  • (6) By choosing Benedict, the previous pope signalled continuity with Benedict XV, who steered the Vatican through the first world war, and also with the original Saint Benedict who founded the Benedictine monastic order and is considered a pioneer of European education.
  • (7) This apparently "narrow" Benedictine tradition linked him to a wider world.
  • (8) It has not hurt that Welby's personal spiritual director is a Benedictine monk; nor that the archbishop recently signalled a further rapprochement by inviting members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community to take up residence in Lambeth Palace .
  • (9) "I think she must have been insane," says Sharp of Hildegard, a Benedictine nun who was one of the most important names on the medieval music scene.
  • (10) The next full public hearing is expected to relate to the Rochdale investigation in October, followed by an examination of the English Benedictine Congregation, part of the Catholic investigation, in December.
  • (11) With his tribal entourage of family and animals, apprentices, dependents, who included the painter David Jones, he settled in the ruined Benedictine monastery at Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains of Wales.
  • (12) Mary O'Hara , the Irish nun, left her convent after 12 years as a Benedictine to become a famous harpist making records and appearing to packed audiences on sell-out tours across Europe and America.
  • (13) The chemical composition and metabolism of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) in a population of Benedictine nuns were studied after 5-month periods during which the predominant dietary fats were sunflower oil, fluid of palm, peanut oil, milk fats, low erucic acid rapeseed (LEAR) oil, corn oil, olive oil, soybean oil.
  • (14) Photograph: Landmark Trust Built on a fresh water spring in 409, San Fruttuoso has been home to Benedictine monks, Barbary pirates and – at the start of the last century – fishermen, who stored anchovies in its cool corners and built what looks like a pizza oven into one wall.
  • (15) I was educated by the Benedictines, and he was educated by the Jesuits, which has certain implications."
  • (16) Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster since February, 1976, who has died aged 76, was the first Benedictine monk to hold this post since the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in 1850.
  • (17) The fact his spiritual director is a Catholic Benedictine is probably a good sign of how he sees the churches working together: locally, spiritually and personally, not as organisations.
  • (18) Trials have also taken place in other countries, notably Belgium, where those convicted included two Benedictine nuns who helped killed Tutsis sheltering at their convent.
  • (19) I like the fact that he began at HTB but topped this up by exploring Benedictine spirituality and has a monk as his spiritual director.
  • (20) The facts in his fate: early death of the mother, sickness of the father, a congenital abnormity of one eye which demanded several operations, and, last not least, school-years passed in a college of Benedictine monchs, created the roots of his neurosis.

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