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Definition of Benedictory
1. Adjective. Expressing benediction.
Definition of Benedictory
1. a. Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.
Definition of Benedictory
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of a benediction ¹
2. Adjective. Giving thanks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benedictory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benedictory
Literary usage of Benedictory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Use of the Voice in Reading and Speaking: A Manual for Clergymen and by Francis Thayer Russell (1883)
"The benedictory Prayer, with which so many Services of the Church are closed, is
most appropriately fixed where it stands, possessing a character which ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"he said instantly, stretching out his hands in a benedictory attitude, "you are
come to be married. I commend your penitence,— the blessing of Holy Church ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The benedictory prayers in the Greek Rite are very similar to those m the Latin
Rite. It is perhaps even more difficult to determine the time when the ..."
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