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ruth f benedict

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Ben⋅e⋅dict

  [ben-i-dikt]
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–noun
1. Ruth (Fulton), 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
2. Saint, a.d. 480?–543?, Italian monk: founded Benedictine order.
3. Stanley Ros⋅si⋅ter  [ros-i-ter] , 1884–1936, U.S. biochemist.
4. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blessed.”
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benedict 
"newly married man" (especially one who had seemed a confirmed bachelor), 1821, from the character Benedicke in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599). The name is from L.L. Benedictus, lit. "blessed," from L. benedicte "bless (you)." This also produced the proper name Bennet; hence also benet (c.1383), the third of the four lesser orders of the Roman Catholic Church, one of whose functions was to exorcize spirits.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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