(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.
Herb
Definition:
(n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
(n.) Grass; herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(2) The cardiovascular pharmacology of two Chinese herbs, Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM) and Panax notoginseng (Burk) F. H. Chen (PNG) were studied both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) As LAM was composed of Kidney-tonifying herbs, all the subjects chosen fell into the pattern of Kidney-deficiency in TCM.
(4) These mutations, named herB, suppressed cer-6 replication in rnh+ bacteria.
(5) A better extractive technology was obtained after isolating and purifying the whole herb of Panax japonicum var.
(6) Clinacanthus nutans Burm, a herb reputed in Thailand and Malaysia to be "snakebite antidote" has been tested in vitro and in vivo for antivenin activity.
(7) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(8) In addition to insulin, there were 8 patients taking herbs to cure diabetes.
(9) This study examined the effects of the predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics on the use of health services by the elderly which includes hospital care, physician services, herb doctor services, self-medication with western drugs, and self-medication with herb drugs.
(10) Chinese medicinal preparation and Chinese patent medicine use traditional medicine and herb drugs as raw materials under the guide of pharmaceutical theory and is progressing into certain dose form according to the prescription book and confined method.
(11) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(12) parsley, chives, thyme, fennel or another herb for the parsley.
(13) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
(14) Selective PK influence on membrane linked activation events in inflammatory effector cells could be the basis of anti-inflammatory and perhaps other biological activities reported with the herb.
(15) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(16) 6)--a mixture of Chinese traditional herbs providing antipyretic and detoxifying action, showed principally normal ultrastructure in liver cells.
(17) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.
(18) Get used to seasoning your food with herbs, spices and black pepper instead.
(19) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(20) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.