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English
Etymology
benediction + -al
Noun
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benedictionals contained a special exorcismus parvulorum a dæmone infestatorum, which has now been in a great measure superseded by the equally effective formula benedictio puerorum ægroiantium of the Romish benedictional.
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