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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 .

Mild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (2) In this group there was only one case of mild ankle discomfort (3.5%).
  • (3) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (5) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
  • (6) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (7) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (8) The effects of IFN and mild hyperthermia on the responses of human promyelocytic HL-60 cells were investigated.
  • (9) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
  • (10) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (11) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
  • (12) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
  • (13) It is assumed that the mild analgesia produced by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and indomethacin is due to a common mode of action, namely inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction in the synthesis of prostaglandins.
  • (14) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
  • (15) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
  • (16) The perinatal mortality was 21% in the mild group and 36% and 138%, respectively, among moderate and severe cases of hypertension.
  • (17) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
  • (18) The patient had mild solar sensitivity by age 7, dyspigmentation by 10 years, and he still currently has moderate symptoms.
  • (19) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
  • (20) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.