“Benedictine”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Benedictine

释义

Benedictine, a. and n.|bɛnɪˈdɪktɪn|
[a. F. bénédictin, f. L. benedictus; see -ine.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to St. Benedict or the religious order founded by him.
1630Wadsworth Sp. Pilgr. vi. 49 [He] had a Benedictine Monke to his Tutor.1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 265 The chapter-house of Westminster, a Benedictine abbey before the Reformation.
B. n.
1. One of the order of monks, also known, from the colour of their dress, as ‘Black Monks,’ founded by St. Benedict about the year 529.
1602W. Watson Decacordon 185 Sequestred..as..Augustines from Benedictines.1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5954/2 Dom Thierry, a Benedictine, is banished the Kingdom.1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 40 When the black Benedictines ceased to pray and chant in this church.
2. A kind of liqueur.
1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xviii, It smelt rather like Benedictine, but..it was difficult to be certain about these liqueurs.

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