Benedictus
Americannoun
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the short canticle or hymn beginning in Latin Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, and in English “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
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the canticle or hymn beginning in Latin Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, and in English “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel.”
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a musical setting of a Benedictus.
noun
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a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
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a canticle beginning Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel in Latin and Blessed be the Lord God of Israel in English
Etymology
Origin of Benedictus
< Latin: blessed (past participle of benedīcere to commend, bless). See bene-, dictum
Example Sentences
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Mozart never got around to finishing the Mass, which ends with a Benedictus but no “Dona nobis pacem,” no plea for the end of conflict.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2022
Leo Benedictus examines the history of such literary frauds and asks some of the writers why they allowed a fiction to mask the truth.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2019
The son of Wim Cox, a documentary filmmaker, and the former Else Kuminack, Paulus Henricus Benedictus Cox was born on April 16, 1940, in Venlo, in the Netherlands near the German border.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016
By Posted Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at 12:47 PM ET Animi et corporis fluctuatio deinceps Benedictus XVI edidit consilium de papatu abdicandum fine Februarii.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
With wondering love and joy unspeakable St Paul pronounced this Benedictus.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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