Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A word variously explained as meaning ‘overgrown with marsh-marigolds,’ or simply ‘dug.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., “abounding in marsh marigolds.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perhaps, abounding in marsh marigolds.
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In this outcome, the role of Gassendi, who cham - pioned an empiricism of Epicurean stamp, paralleled and soon merged with that of Locke.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968
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A later and somewhat different form of this view was cham - pioned by A.N. Whitehead.
CAUSATION JULIUS WEINBERG 1968
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