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noun

Roman Catholic Church.

a member of an order of monks founded at Monte Cassino by St. Benedict about a.d. 530.

a member of any congregation of nuns following the rule of St. Benedict.

a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks.

adjective

of or pertaining to St. Benedict or the Benedictines.

Origin:
1620–30; St. Benedict + -ine¹

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Benedictine

—n
1.	a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community founded by or following the rule of Saint Benedict
2.	a greenish-yellow liqueur made from a secret formula developed at the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp in France in about 1510

—*adj*
3.	of or relating to Saint Benedict, his order, or his rule

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