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Beneficient

//ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    beneficent proscribed, sometimes

    "1929, Time, 25 March, 1929, "Apple Salt," https://web.archive.org/web/20130721133038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846362,00.html Last week. Dr. John Christian Krantz Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficient drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests."

Etymology

Modification of beneficent after beneficial.

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