benedict

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor. rare
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. to bless. rare
    — 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.
  2. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having mild and salubrious qualities. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

benedicts plural more benedict comparative most benedict superlative benedicts present,singular,third-person benedicting participle,present benedicted participle,past benedicted past

词源

词源 1
From Benedicke (normalized to the usual spelling, Benedict), a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598).
词源 2
From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.
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