Crossword clues for benedick
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Benedict \Ben"e*dict\, Benedick \Ben"e*dick\, n. [From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of ``Much Ado about Nothing.''] A married man, or a man newly married.
Wiktionary
n. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
WordNet
n. a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) [syn: benedict]
Usage examples of "benedick".
The Messenger assures the company that Benedick is alive and well, and Beatrice breaks out at once in a flood of slander against him.
There is a gracious and good-humored conversation with Leonato in the course of which Benedick carefully manages to fail to see Beatrice.
Claudio has fallen in love with Hero and as is natural for a lover, he wants his friend, Benedick, to praise her.
Leonato is planning a masked dance that night as an amusement for the royal company he is hosting, and during the preparations, Beatrice is her usual merry self, as busily denying she will have a husband as Benedick had earlier been denying he would have a wife.
As for Ate, she is the Greek goddess of vengeance and mischief, who created so much trouble even among the gods that she was cast out of heaven and condemned to live on earth, where, Benedick implies, she has taken on the likeness of Beatrice.
Don Pedro, having listened to Benedick and Beatrice berate each other, suddenly thinks it would be delightful to trick them into falling in love.
Leonato is half convinced, Benedick is puzzled and confused, and Hero faints.
Poor Benedick, confessing his love for her, can scarcely get two words out at a time.
Quietly Benedick challenges Claudio to a duel, out of the hearing of Don Pedro.
But Benedick insists on being grim, and stalks off after insulting Claudio unmistakably and formally leaving the service of Don Pedro.
Don Pedro, commander of the army in which Benedick and Claudio have served.
Beatrice has clearly won in their little game of one-upmanship, but at the expense of nearly losing Benedick, to whom she is, despite herself, really attracted.
The final coupling of Beatrice and Benedick is remarkably free of any constraints of social custom other than their serious and mutual investigation as to what it would be like to live together permanently as wife and husband.
At the masked ball, he speaks in confidence to the disguised Claudio as though addressing Benedick, warning him that Don Pedro seems romantically interested in the young lady for himself.
Local insurance associations and loan companies kept Benedict Filesthe pen a man had used to sign his contract, his snubbed-out cigarette butt, a plastex hanky with which he had mopped his brow, an object left in security, the remains of a biopsy or blood testso that Benedick could use his power against those who renege on these companies and flee, on those who break their laws.