Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Benedictus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Benedictus \Ben`e*dic"tus\, n. [L., blessed. See {Benedict}, a.]
The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist
(--Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin
version.
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