Crossword clues for benedictine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Benedictine \Ben`e*dic"tine\, a. Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
Benedictine \Ben`e*dic"tine\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
Note: The Benedictines wear black clothing, and are sometimes called Black Monks. The name Black Fr????rs which belongs to the Dominicans, is also sometimes applied to the Benedictines.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "one of the order known from the color of its dress as the Black Monks," founded c.529 by St. Benedict (see benedict).
Wikipedia
Benedictine may mean:
- A Benedictine, a monk or nun who belongs to the Order of Saint Benedict
- Benedictine abbey
- Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas
- Benedictine High School (disambiguation)
- Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois
- Bénédictine, a liqueur
- Benedictine (spread), a spread/dip made with cucumbers and cream cheese
Benedictine or benedictine spread is a spread made with cucumbers and cream cheese. Invented near the beginning of the 20th century, it was originally and still is used for making cucumber sandwiches, but in recent years it has been used as a dip or combined with meat in a sandwich. This spread can be obtained pre-made from some Louisville area grocery stores.
Although benedictine is rarely seen in restaurants outside the state of Kentucky, it has been written about in articles in national publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Saveur Magazine, and also reported about on multimedia outlets such as the Food Network and NPR.
A benedictine-based sandwich was featured on the Food Network's 50 States 50 Sandwiches program in 2012, on the television shows of celebrity chefs Paula Deen and Damaris Phillips, and in Southern Living magazine as one of June's "2011 Best Recipes" for their corresponding issue.
Bénédictine is a herbal liqueur beverage developed by Alexandre Le Grand in the 19th century and produced in France.
Usage examples of "benedictine".
Work in the educational field has been undertaken by many theocentric organizations other than the Benedictine order -- all too often, unhappily, under the restrictive influence of the political, state-supported and state-supporting church.
New York in meetings with such devoted critics as the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St.
Founded by Benedictine monks in 1876, Belmont Abbey was the first monastery that the Catholic Church established in the postbellum South.
The twenty-one Benedictine monks who live in prayerful isolation within the walls of Belmont Abbey take vows of poverty.
Although Fontrevault is not a Benedictine abbey, we have been invited to participate.
It was only then that I saw he had purloined a Benedictine habit as his costume for the morality play.
King appointed thereto his son, the Comte de Vegin, and as the Benedictine monks secretly complained that they should have given to them as chief a child almost still in its cradle, the King instructed the grand almoner to remind them that they had had as abbes in preceding reigns princes who were married and of warlike tastes.
The Community of Benedictine Nuns is regarded as the first, because of the abbotorial dignity it possesses.
The Community of Benedictine Monks is only second,--a fact which surprises greatly strangers and visitors.
Fontevrault, where more than a hundred Benedictine monks obey an abbess.
Project Gutenberg should be carried out via Illinois Benedictine College unless via email.
After a minute or so, the inner door opened and a tall, rather pale man in Benedictine habit entered the room.
With twelve sonorous, resounding strokes, the great Bell of the Benedictine Church of Saint Denys, in the courtyard of Castle Cherbourg, sounded the hour of midnight.
By the time Lord Darcy had showered and shaved, the caffe was already waiting for him, and the young man in the Benedictine habit was standing by.
The door opened and a tall, rather pale man in Benedictine habit entered the room.