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Benefic

Definition: Benefic

Benefic

Adjective

1. Exerting a favorable or beneficent influence; "a benefic star"; "a benefic force".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Benefic \Be*nef"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression beneficus. See Benefice.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Commercial Usage: Benefic

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to read a horoscope : a scientific model of predication based on benefic & malefic analysis of planets & bhavas as per Hindu astrology (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Benefic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

benefic

8

benefic poste

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Benefic

Language Translations for "benefic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ekstatisk psykose (ecstatic benefic psychosis). (various references)

   

French

  

phase d'exaltation de la psychose périodique (ecstatic benefic psychosis). (various references)

   

German

  

ekstatische Eingebungspsychose (ecstatic benefic psychosis). (various references)

   

Manx

  

beaghey agglish (church living). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eneficbay

   

Spanish

  

fase de exaltación de la psicosis periódica (ecstatic benefic psychosis). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сприятливий (accessory, advantageous, auspicious, benign, bright, conducive, conducive to, congenial, contributory, favorable, favourable, fortunate, kindly, opportune, profitable, propitious, prosperous, subservient, white), милостивий (benign, charitable, gracious, merciful, propitious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Benefic

Derivations

Words beginning with "benefic": benefice, beneficed, beneficence, beneficences, beneficent, beneficently, benefices, beneficial, beneficially, beneficialness, beneficialnesses, beneficiaries, beneficiary, beneficiate, beneficiated, beneficiates, beneficiating, beneficiation, beneficiations, beneficing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Benefic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benedia, benedic, Benedicam, Benedik, benef, Benefica, Benefo, Beneix, Benfey, benzenic, Bijedic, Bondevik, Boneji. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Benefic"

Words rhyming with "benefic" (pronounced 'Be*nef"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Benefic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-f-i-n"

-2 letters: fence, niece.

-3 letters: beef, been, bene, bice, bine, cine, fice, fine, neif, nice.

-4 letters: bee, ben, bin, cee, fee, fen, fib, fie, fin, ice, neb, nee, nib.

-5 letters: be, bi, ef, en, if, in, ne.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-f-i-n"
 

+1 letter: benefice, fencible.

 

+2 letters: beneficed, benefices, fencibles.

 

+3 letters: beflecking, beneficent, beneficial, beneficing, tenebrific.

 

+4 letters: benefaction, beneficence, beneficiary, beneficiate, inflectable, rubefacient.

 

+5 letters: benefactions, beneficences, beneficently, beneficially, beneficiated, beneficiates, forcibleness, indefectible, indefectibly, ineffaceable, ineffaceably, rubefacients.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Benefic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6E 65 66 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#102 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006E 0065 0066 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36718071727569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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