benedicite

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The requirements of the metre in this and other passages of Chaucer, show that benedicite was sometimes contracted, in the pronunciation, to ben'cite.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

Fair lords," he said, "our lady's love,   And peace be with you from above,     And benedicite!

From Ten Great Events in History by Johonnot, James

Dear husband, benedicite, Fares every knight thus with his wife as ye?

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

The Dominican, after muttering the benedicite, to which scarcely any one knew how to respond, began to serve the contents.

From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.

For at this foul araye.—So, in the Child of Bristow, an early metrical legend, we read:— "When the burges the child gan se, He seid then, benedicite, Sone, what araye is this?"

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew