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- proper noun A
botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist (John) William Colenso (1811-1899).
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Examples
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"Mr. Hepworth Dixon may almost be called the Colenso of Love and Marriage -- such a revolution does he make in our ideas on these matters, just as Dr. Colenso does in our ideas on religion."
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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And this exactly falls in with what Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who may almost be called the Colenso of love and marriage, -- such a revolution does he make in our ideas on these matters, just as Dr. Colenso does in our ideas on religion, -- tells us of the notions and proceedings of our kinsmen in America.
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855
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Once in a week or so her father gave her a lecture for her ignorance, and ordered her into his study to do a long sum in arithmetic out of the first old "Colenso" that could be picked up; and about once a week too, awakening suddenly to a sense of her own deficiencies, she would "practise" energetically on the old piano.
Phoebe, Junior 1862
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“Mr. Hepworth Dixon may almost be called the Colenso of Love and Marriage ” such a revolution does he make in our ideas on these matters, just as Dr. Colenso does in our ideas on religion.”
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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To promote a new season of Prison Break, Colenso BBDO gave reporters a cake with a file hidden inside.
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Barry Colenso, former top chocolate-maker at Derbyshire-based Thorntons, damaged the truffles at Hotel Chocolat in Nottingham.
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This doubt takes the form of an exercise in extremely basic Biblical criticism, in which he points out a mathematical error an obvious attack on J. W. Colenso.
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This doubt takes the form of an exercise in extremely basic Biblical criticism, in which he points out a mathematical error an obvious attack on J. W. Colenso.
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I went on to describe a Maxim gun in action, and what I could imagine of the Battle of Colenso.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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One — two — three, came those ominous repulses at Stormberg, Magersfontein, Colenso.
In Chancery 2004
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