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elle amie 40
belle amie [Fr], female friend; mistress.
belle assemblee [Fr], fashionable gathering.
belle-fille [Fr; pi. belles-filles], daughter-in-law; stepdaughter.
belle-mère [Fr; pi. belles-mères], mother-in-law; stepmother.
belle montre et peu de rapport [Fr], fine show and small return (or
crop).
belle mort [Fr], natural death.
belle parole non pascon i gatti [It], fine words do not feed cats; fine
words butter no parsnips.
belle passion [Fr], the tender passion.
belles-lettres [Fr], polite or elegant literature; writings of a purely
literary kind.
belle-soeur [Fr; pi. belles-soeurs], sister-in-law; stepsister.
belle tournure [Fr], fine figure; shapeliness.
bellum internecinum [L], internecine war; war of extermination.
bellum lethale [L], deadly war.
bellum omnium in omnes [L], a war of all against all.
bema [Gr βήμα, bêma], in ancient Athenian assemblies, the speaker's
platform or tribune; in the Eastern Church, the part of the chancel
reserved for the higher clergy.
bene decessit [L], he (or she) died naturally (lit., well).
benedetto è quel male che viene solo [It], blessed is the misfortune
that comes alone.
benedicite! [L], bless ye! bless you!
bene esse [LL], well-being.
bene est tentare [L], it is as well to try.
bene exeat [L], lit., let him (or her) go forth well; certificate of good
character.
bénéficiaire [Fr], beneficiary; theat, recipient of a benefit.
beneficium [L], lit., kindness or favor; a benefice; living; preferment:
eccl. —beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, to accept a favor
is to sell one's liberty.
bene merenti [L; pi. merentibus], to the well-deserving.
bene meritus [L; pi. meriti], having well deserved.
bene orasse est bene studuisse [L], to have prayed well is to have
striven well.
bene qui latuit bene vixit [L], well has he lived who has lived a retired
life; he who has lived in obscurity has lived in security: Ovid.
benêt [Fr], booby; simpleton.
bene vale [L], farewell: abbr. b.v. —bene vale vobis, good luck to you.
ben ficcato [It], well established.
benigno numine [L], with favoring providence; by the favor of heaven:
Horace.
benissimo [It], very well; quite right.