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Definition of Benempt
1. p. p. Promised; vowed.
Definition of Benempt
1. Verb. (form of alternative simple past and past participle bename) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benempt
1. bename [v] - See also: bename
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benempt
Literary usage of Benempt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... making a serious charge against the magistrates, as an invocation for deliverance
from evil. L. benedicite, bless ye. benempt, pp. named. Spenser, Shep. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... the diseases of body and mind in the dungeon of the castle,4 "the fiery-footed
boy, benempt Dispatch,"5 who is page to the Knight of Arts and Industry, ..."
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