benedictine
/bˌɛnədˈɪktin/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
adj
Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.
Example Sentences
- "Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished."
- "Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine."
- "Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids."
- "Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages."
- "As they were speaking, there appeared on the road two Benedictine friars mounted on two dromedaries, for the two mules they rode on were surely no smaller than that."
Etymology
From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus, named after Italian 6th century Saint Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae). Recorded in English from the 17th century. By surface analysis, Benedict + -ine.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: bénédictin, benedictus