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Brewer's: Benet
(French). A simpleton, so called because they were supposed to be, in a special way, the objects of God's care. (French, béni, Old French, beneit, from Latin, benedictus.) We call an idiot an “Innocent” (q.v.).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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