- benedict
- noun Etymology: alteration of Benedick, character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Date: 1821 a newly married man who has long been a bachelor
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Benedict — most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western monasticism. It may also may refer to:Peopleaints*Benedict of Aniane *Benedict Biscop *Benedict the Bridge Builder, also known as… … Wikipedia
Benedict — ist der Name folgender Personen: Charles B. Benedict (1828–1901), amerikanischer Politiker Cleve Benedict (* 1935), amerikanischer Politiker Clint Benedict (1894–1976), kanadischer Eishockeyspieler Dirk Benedict (* 1945), amerikanischer… … Deutsch Wikipedia
BENEDICT° — BENEDICT°, name of 16 popes, several of whom had significant contacts with Jews. BENEDICT VIII (1012–1024) ordered the execution of a number of Roman Jews in 1020 or 1021, on a charge that they had mocked the cross and thereby caused an… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Benedict IX — Pope Benedict IX † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict IX The nephew of his two immediate predecessors, Benedict IX was a man of very different character to either of them. He was a disgrace to the Chair of Peter. Regarding it as a… … Catholic encyclopedia
Benedict V — Pope Benedict V † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict V Date of birth unknown; died 4 July, 965. Benedict V was elected pope (May, 964) in very critical circumstances. The powerful emperor, Otho I, had forcibly deposed the… … Catholic encyclopedia
Benedict — Benedict, NE U.S. village in Nebraska Population (2000): 278 Housing Units (2000): 102 Land area (2000): 0.189711 sq. miles (0.491349 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.189711 sq. miles (0.491349… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
Benedict XI — Pope Benedict XI † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict XI (Nicholas Boccasini) Born at Treviso, Italy, 1240; died at Perugia, 7 July, 1304. He entered the Dominican Order at the age of fourteen. After fourteen years of study, he … Catholic encyclopedia
BENEDICT (R.) — BENEDICT RUTH FULTON (1887 1948) L’ethnologue américaine Ruth Benedict ne vint, avec enthousiasme d’ailleurs, à la recherche anthropologique que vers la trentaine, déçue qu’elle était alors par les études de littérature anglaise qu’elle avait… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Benedict I — Pope Benedict I † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict I Of the first Pontiff who bore the name of Benedict practically nothing is known. The date of his birth is unknown; he d. 30 July, 579. He was a Roman and the son of Boniface,… … Catholic encyclopedia
Benedict IV — Pope Benedict IV † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict IV Date of birth unknown; died in the summer of 903. The Popes Benedict from the fourth to the ninth inclusive belong to the darkest period of papal history. The reigns of… … Catholic encyclopedia
Benedict VI — Pope Benedict VI † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Benedict VI Date of birth unknown; d. August, 974 (see Ricobaldi of Ferrara, Compil. Chron., in Rer. Ital. SS. IX). Benedict, Cardinal Deacon of St. Theodore, a Roman and the son of… … Catholic encyclopedia
