(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.
Cognac
Definition:
(n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Example Sentences:
(1) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
(2) Chronic beer and wine intake and acute intoxication with cognac suggest - up to now - the enhancing effect of beverage congeners.
(3) Back in the good old days of le Tour, riders would stop en route at local bars and fill their bidons with wine and cognac.
(4) He probably had an inkling he wasn't going to share a cognac with Kissinger that evening, but it spoke volumes that he tried.
(5) Drunk on cognac and disoriented by the darkness as he stumbled down onto the tarmac at Genoa’s Christopher Columbus airport at around 3.40am on 22 July, 1966, the defender could not immediately identify the fruit but he did know one thing: “It definitely wasn’t fresh” .
(6) Among the buyers was a Shanghai-based Chinese importer of French wines who bought half the Cognac on sale and the most expensive Petrus.
(7) Born into a family of cognac merchants, Monnet became the greatest behind-the-scenes fixer in modern history.
(8) Very frequently it is not money that is given, but some expensive gift, like expensive cognac.
(9) The drugs employed were: ethyl alcohol, cognac, hexobarbital, diazepam, imipramine and chloralose.
(10) As with the response to the tests of 2006, 2009 and 2013, the UN is considering punitive sanctions but Korean specialist Andrei Lankov argued that this would merely result in depriving the elite of their “Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate”.
(11) There’s more to Armenia than cognac, carpets and its most famous daughter, Kim Kardashian .
(12) Foreign media wrote about his love for sushi and cognac.
(13) Such sanctions will allow politicians to explain to their voters that they are punishing a rogue regime in all ways imaginable – for instance, depriving the leadership of Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate.
(14) Sexual parameters indicated that sexual behaviour is drastically affected by cognac consumption.
(15) Tweet of the week Top-tier trolling (or on-message post-Brexit optimism) from the Foreign Office: Foreign Office (FCO) (@foreignoffice) More Scotch Whisky is sold in one month in France than Cognac in a year.
(16) If you are unable to get online on Thursday, email your views to globaldevpros@theguardian.com or follow our tweets using the hashtag #globaldevlive Panelists Matthieu Cognac, youth employment specialist, International Labour Organisation , Bangkok, Thailand.
(17) Is there a reason why the world's powerful, gathering at the exclusive resort to sip cognac and eat blinis, should care?
(18) The effects of chronic consumption of some beverages (plum-brandy 24% and cognac 20%) upon preimplantation development in rats were studied.
(19) The results showed that the ingestion of cognac leads to significant alterations in the sexual behaviour of the male rat.
(20) Oral, intragastric, and intraduodenal administrations of ethanol do not release gastrin, whereas beer and white and red wine but not whisky and cognac are potent stimulants of gastric acid secretion and release gastrin in humans.