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Meaning of "benedictional" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BENEDICTIONAL

ˌbenɪˈdɪkʃənəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BENEDICTIONAL

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Benedictional is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BENEDICTIONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Benedictional

A Benedictional is a book containing a collection of benedictions or blessings in use in the Roman Catholic Church, essentially collected from those in sacramentary. The Anglo-Saxon Benedictional of St. Æthelwold is the most famous of the relatively infrequent illuminated manuscript examples, which are mostly Early Medieval.

Definition of benedictional in the English dictionary

The definition of benedictional in the dictionary is a book of benedictions or blessings.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENEDICTIONAL»

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The benedictional of Saint Æthelwold: a masterpiece of ...
St Aethelwold was one of the leaders of the movement of ecclesiastical and cultural renewal in tenth-century England which led to the foundation of new monasteries, the building of great cathedrals, the compilation of major Latin and ...
Andrew Prescott, British Library, 2001
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Bishop Aethelwold: His Career and Influence
(ff 106-132v).81 At the same time, the full text of the benedictional was being modified. The Anderson Pontifical (London, BL, Additional MS 57337) contains a version of /Ethelwold in which, for instance, the Gregorian blessings for the third to ...
Barbara Yorke, 1997
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The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History
The Canterbury benedictional of c. 1030 (BL Harley 2892; see p. 92) contains two three-part blessings for the feast, both of which appear to have been composed there. The first seems to show up otherwise only in the Westminster missal.
Richard W. Pfaff, 2009
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The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture ...
83 See George F. Warner and H.A. Wilson, The Benedictional of Saint /Ethelwold , Bishop of Winchester (Oxford, 1910), pp. xxix-xxx. 84 Deshman, The Benedictional of /Ethelwold, pp. 139-41, and Prescott, The Benedictional of Saint  ...
John S. Ott, Anna Trumbore Jones, 2007
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The Benedictional of Aethelwold
Explores in detail one of the great works of medieval art, the sumptuously illustrated Benedictional commissioned by the powerful Anglo-Saxon bishop, AEthelwold of Winchester (936-84)
Robert Deshman, 1995
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The Benedictional of John Longlonde: Bishop of Lincoln ...
The edition is of the entire manuscript and collates with the text edited (poorly) by Ralph Barnes (Liber Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, W. Roberts, Exeter, 1847), and with the unpublished Pontifical of Bishop Anianus of Bangor (1267-1307) ...
Reginald Maxwell Woolley, 2010
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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
The 'Canterbury redaction' must have been in existence by the 950s.120 For Æthelwold's interest inestablishingCuthbertas apan-English saint, we have incontestable evidence from his Benedictional (BL, Additional 49598). Here Cuthbert ...
Mechthild Gretsch, 2006
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Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England
Æthelthryth in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold Ælfric's lection and the presentation of Æthelthryth in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold (c. 975),35 both products of the Benedictine Reform, serve as the Anglo-Saxon period's closing ...
Paul E. Szarmach, 2013
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The Gentleman's Magazine
I. A Dissertation on St. AZthelwold's Benedictional, an illuminated MS. of tie 10lk century, in the library of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Communicated by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, in a Letter to the Right Hon. George Earl of ...
John Nichols, 1832
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Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval ...
Missal (Oxford, Bodl. ms 579), the oldest complete English benedictional to survive.43 As Prescott observes, Æthelwold's benedictional differs markedly from the Leofric Missal; Æthelwold's text is much longer and has more than triple the ...
Virginia Blanton, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BENEDICTIONAL»

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A Clerk of Oxford's guide to a bright old world
Look online at the miniatures in the 10th-century Benedictional of St Aethelwold. No one could make such a thing today. Or look at the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Finals begin Sunday night for 303 KMHS seniors
Shawn Adams will give the benedictional prayer. “Pomp and Circumstance” will be played by Cathy Holland to usher the seniors into and from ... «kmherald, May 15»
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Fragile 2000 year old copy of the Ten Commandments among …
Globally available: The 16th Century Benedictional of Robert de Clercq, with an illumination by Simon Bening. The Nash Papyrus. Named after ... «Daily Mail, Dec 12»
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