benedict
SubstantivAdjektivVerbin Dialogen belegt
To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
Substantiv
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seltenA newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor.
The benedict, drearily superfluous to the festivities, had hardly been noticed by her as he lurked about the walls and sought what entertainment was possible to one under the social disabilities of matrimony.
A quarter of a mile inland we came upon the holluschickie -- sleek young bulls, living out the loneliness of their bachelorhood and gathering strength against the day when they would fight their way into the ranks of the benedicts
Herkunft
From Benedicke (normalized to the usual spelling, Benedict), a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598).
Adjektiv
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veraltetHaving mild and salubrious qualities.
And it is not a ſmall thing won in Phyſick, if you can make rhubarb, and other medicines that are benedict, as ſtrong purgers, as thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.
Herkunft
From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.
Verb
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seltento bless.
Now, dis explanation o' de rose dance ain't on my own account, for I des' now tol' yer dat, so far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't make no diff'ence to me if I'd 'a' been requi'ed to go to hell for her — I'd 'a' went — in joy — for de fulfilment o' de love which Gord A'mighty done benedicted my heart wid.
Rukmini, the goddess of fortune, was already personally obliged to stay as a guest in the brahmana's house in order to benedict him with great fortune.
As a result of this act he was benedicted with more honours by the Mughal court.
At the beginning of the nineties, especially during the Peterle government, it seemed as if ecclesiastic figues would start appearing and benedicting public events. After certain protests were made, especially after the opening of a motorway was benedicted, this practice seems to be fading away.
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To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
His pancakes were never just ordinary pancakes: they were airy creations mushroomed in sauce, or they were crepes suzette. Eggs were shirred, mornayed or benedicted.
I love thee raw, baked, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, poached, scrambled, sauteed, fried, shirred, deviled, creamed, curried, coddled, glazed, pickled, Benedicted, or Scotched . . . in omelets and souffle/s and quiches of infinite variety ...in mayonnaise and hollandaise and be/arnaise. . .
I can scramble them, poach them, Benedict them, and make them into omelets.
Formen
- Plural
- benedicts
- Komparativ
- more benedict
- Superlativ
- most benedict
- Präteritum
- benedicted
- Partizip II
- benedicted
- Partizip I
- benedicting
- 3. Person Singular
- benedicts
benedict · To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
Benedict · A male given name from Latin, particularly of the…benefactor · Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.beneficial · Helpful or good to something or someone.