Medical Definition of Benitier
1. A holy-water stoup. Origin: F, fr. Benir to bless. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benitier
Literary usage of Benitier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tin Enamelled Pottery: Maiolica, Delft, and Other Stanniferous Faience by Edwin Atlee Barber (1907)
"MAIOLICA benitier (17^ inches in height). Green, Blue, Greenish Gray and Ochreous
Red. Faenza, Italy, Seventeenth Century. ..."
2. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"A novice followed it, carrying a benitier. A cross of the fifteenth century is
still preserved at St. John's, Lateran; another, of the time of St. Louis, ..."
3. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"See benitier. CLAMPING, a union of boards at right angles. CLAMP, an iron holdfast;
a kiln, or pile of bricks placed for burning. ..."
4. Spanish Maiolica in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"benitier Height, 13^ inches. Modeled alcove with pillars supported by cherubs
... benitier Height, 10^2 inches. Figures of the Virgin and Child in relief. ..."
5. The Cathedrals of Southern France by Francis Miltoun (1904)
"In the cathedral the chief article of real artistic value is a benitier, made
from the capital of a luxurious Corinthian column. One has seen sun-dials and ..."
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