benedictional
English edit
Etymology edit
benediction + -al
Noun edit
benedictional (plural benedictionals)
- a book of benedictions.
- 1895 October, Edward Payson Evans, “Recent Recrudescence of Superstition I”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 47:
- little children are very frequently demoniacally possessed for the same reason that women are; on this account the old diocesan benedictionals contained a special exorcismus parvulorum a dæmone infestatorum, which has now been in a great measure superseded by the equally effective formula benedictio puerorum ægroiantium of the Romish benedictional.
Translations edit
book of benedictions
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References edit
- “benedictional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.