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Benedictine

adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia. not-comparable
"Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages."
2
Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order. not-comparable

Adjective

1
of or relating to the Benedictines wordnet
2
of or relating to Saint Benedict or his works wordnet

Noun

1
A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
"Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished."
2
a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks wordnet
3
A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
"Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine."
4
a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus, named after Italian 6th century Saint Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae). Recorded in English from the 17th century. By surface analysis, Benedict + -ine.

Etymology 2

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