Pronounced: BEH-nuh-dikt, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word existed
Yesterday’s word
The word gramarye is “occult learning; magic”
First usage
Our word is old; coming into English in the early 1300s
Background / Comments
I don’t do much reading in that area, so the word was unknown to me. It comes from the Old French word gramaire (grammar; book of magic), which came from the Greek word gramma (letter).
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