(person) by Queequeg Tue Feb 20 2001 at 3:03:35

The young lord of Padua in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Though his
antagonist, the wry Beatrice, dubs him "the prince's jester" during their "merry war,"
Benedick is actually a quick-witted skeptic of romantic love whose final surrender to
marriage unmasks his irony.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:06:10

Ben"e*dict (?), Ben"e*dick (?), n. [From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of "Much Ado about Nothing."]

A married man, or a man newly married.

 

© Webster 1913.

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