a. and sb. [a. F. bénédictin, f. L. benedictus; see -INE.]

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  A.  adj. Of or belonging to St. Benedict or the religious order founded by him.

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1630.  Wadsworth, Sp. Pilgr., vi. 49. [He] had a Benedictine Monke to his Tutor.

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1861.  Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., 265. The chapter-house of Westminster (a Benedictine abbey before the Reformation) was polygonal.

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  B.  sb. 1. One of the order of monks, also known, from the color of their dress, as ‘Black Monks,’ founded by St. Benedict about the year 529.

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1602.  W. Watson, Decacordon, 185. Sequestred … as … Augustines from Benedictines.

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1721.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5954/2. Dom Thierry, a Benedictine, is banished the Kingdom.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt (1868), 40. When the black Benedictines ceased to pray and chant in this church.

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  2.  A kind of liqueur.

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1882.  J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xviii. It smelt rather like Benedictine, but … it was difficult to be certain about these liqueurs.

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