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Definition of Benefic
1. Adjective. Exerting a favorable or beneficent influence. "A benefic force"
Definition of Benefic
1. a. Favorable; beneficent.
Definition of Benefic
1. Adjective. Favorable; beneficent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benefic
1. kindly [adj] - See also: kindly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benefic
Literary usage of Benefic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Precedents in Conveyancing: Settled and Approved by the Most by Thomas Walter Williams (1788)
"... whole benefic thereof, .unto and by him the faid John Gale, his executors, ad
mini Orators, ... benefic ..."
2. A dictionary of the English language, for the use of schools by Frederick Poynder (1854)
"Conferring benefits benefic'iary, a. Holding an office under another Ben'efit,
va and n. To do good to, receive good Ben'efit, s. An act of kindness, ..."
3. The Bṛihat Saṃhitâ of Varaha Mihira by Varāhamihira, N Chidambaram Iyer (1884)
"11 If the omen be the cry of a creature in the 19th benefic quarter there will
be a meeting with persons afflicted with windy ..."
4. Correspondence Between the Board of Trade and T. Grahame ...: On Railway by Great Britain Board of Trade (1852)
"I feel perfect confidence that an agreement, benefic ial to all parties—the
Public, the Canal, and the Railways, —may be easily arranged; but with none ..."
5. The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira by Varāhamihira, N. C. Iyer (1885)
"If malefic planets occupy benefic Vargas (division,) and be aspected by benefic
... If Rahu occupy the 3rd, 6th or 11th house and be aspected by benefic ..."
6. Bibliography of Hookworm Disease by International Health Board, Rockefeller Foundation (1922)
"San. y benefic. Habana, 1914, xi: 450-553. Hookworm disease p. 454-463. ... San.
y benefic. Habana, 1911, vi: 674-702. Includes trans. of articles by CW ..."
7. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, Or Quadripartite: Being Four Books of the Influence by Ptolemy, Proclus, Philip Ranger, J. M. Ashmand (1822)
"If the Sun be found with the Gorgon's head (Caput M«tH.-«!:), and not aspected
by any benefic star, and if there be no benefic [¡resent in the eighth house, ..."
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