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BENEF'ICENT, a. Doing good; performing acts of kindness and charity. It differs ...
BENEF'ICENCE, n. [L.beneficentia, from the participle of benefacio.] The practic...
BEN'EFICELESS, a. Having no benefice. [Not used.]
BEN'EFICED, a. Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
BEN'EFICE, n. [L. beneficium.] 1. Literally, a benefit, advantage or kindness. b...
BENEFAC'TRESS, n. A female who confers a benefit.
BENEFAC'TOR, n. He who confers a benefit, especially one who makes charitable co...
BENEFAC'TION, n. [L.benefacio, of bene, well, and facio, to make or do.] 1. The ...
BENEDIC'TION, n. [L. benedictio, from bene, well, and dictio, speaking. See Boon...
BENEDIC'TINES, n. An order of monks, who profess to follow the rules of St. Bene...
BENEDIC'TINE, a. Pertaining to the order or monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
BEN'EDICT, a. [L. benedictus.] Having mild and salubrious qualities. [ Not in use.]
BENE'ATH, prep. 1. Under; lower in place, with something directly over or on, as...
BENE'APED, a. [be and neap.] Among seamen, a ship is beneaped, when the water do...
BENE, n. ben'y. The popular name of the sesamum orientale, called in the West In...
BEND'Y, n. In heraldry, the field divided into four, six or more parts, diagonal...