the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. <span class="searchmatch">benedick</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">benedicks</span>) A recently married man, especially one who has long held out...
<span class="searchmatch">benedicks</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">benedick</span>...
1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]: DON PEDRO. How dost thou, <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span>, the married man? <span class="searchmatch">BENEDICK</span>. I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannout...
if I had it,— DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span>. <span class="searchmatch">BENEDICK</span>. Nay, mock not, mock not. tuition fees tutelage tutelar tutelary tutor...
Nebraska, United States. A city and village in North Dakota, United States. <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span> Benedicta Benedictine benediction Bennet, bennet Bennett equivalent male...
switched his romantic allegiance to Helena — are bitter, cruel. At times <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span> and Beatrice's verbal sparrings drip with an acidity that smarts. act of...
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afore I could get her head on so's to run in. 1906, Halliwell Sutcliffe, A <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span> in Arcady: Parents, I've noticed, have a trick of saying their prayers...
Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: Therefore, let <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span>, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs. 1748, [Samuel Richardson]...
(Ireland, obsolete elsewhere) Plural of child. 1906, Halliwell Sutcliffe, A <span class="searchmatch">Benedick</span> in Arcady: Parents, I've noticed, have a trick of saying their prayers...