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benefic

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be⋅nef⋅ic

  [buh-nef-ik]
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–adjective
doing or promoting some good; beneficent: a benefic truce; a benefic confluence of planets.
Origin:
1590–1600; < L beneficus. See bene-, -fic
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be·nef·ic   (bə-něf'ĭk)   
adj.  Beneficent.

[Latin beneficus : bene, well; see benefaction + -ficus, -fic.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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