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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Tines restructured the Latin mass familiar from Bach and Haydn, beginning, as usual, with the Kyrie but ending with the Benedictus.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
“I’m interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn’t deserve being glorified,” Ed Ruscha told the Guardian’s Leo Benedictus in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2016
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
Dundee had sniffed around Craig Samson's net a couple of times themselves but the first to call the keeper into action was Kyle Benedictus.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
As to the expediency of restoring what has been lost of Benedictus after the second lesson, the present writer offers no opinion.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
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