Benedictine

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 13

ben-e-dik′tin, adj. pertaining to St Benedict or his monastic rule.— n. a Black Friar or monk of the order founded at Monte Ca ino by St Benedict of Nursia (480-543), which became famous for its learning: a cordial or liqueur resembling Chartreuse, distilled at Fécamp in Normandy—once distilled by Benedictine monks.