Benedictine

[ ben-i-dik-tin, -teen, -tahyn ben-i-dik-teen ]

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noun

Roman Catholic Church.
1. a member of an order of monks founded at Monte Cassino by St. Benedict about a.d. 530.
2. a member of any congregation of nuns following the rule of St. Benedict.
a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks.

Benedictine

ˌbɛnɪˈdɪktɪn-taɪn a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community founded by or following the rule of Saint Benedict
ˌbɛnɪˈdɪktiːn a greenish-yellow liqueur made from a secret formula developed at the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp in France in about 1510

1620–30; St. Benedict + -ine ¹

The government of Colombia decided to loan the 28,000 square meter fixer-upper to a fraternity of hermetic Benedictine monks.

In 2002, Michelle Elzay began photographing the Benedictine nuns of the Saint Marie Du Maumont convent, in the Charente in France.

He chronicles the booze he was vacuuming up: Benedictine and brandy, wine, Bourbon and Seven.

The first time was to my boarding school alma mater, Portsmouth Abbey, an excellent place run by Benedictine monks.

It is also thought that the book was written by a Franciscan friar for the use of some one in a Benedictine house.

Attached to the church was a Benedictine convent, whose abbess seems to have represented the diocese of Florence.

In two successive years—1496, 7—parties were invited thence to reform French Benedictine houses.

Devanne lighted a second cigar and poured himself a glass of Benedictine.

In 1327, the scholars and citizens of Oxford pillaged the opulent Benedictine abbey of the neighbouring town of Abingdon.

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