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Definition of Bushnell

1. Noun. American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824).

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Literary usage of Bushnell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Bushnell thereupon quitted England in disgust, and, after studying his ... Bushnell was a man of a wayward and jealous temper, and various tales are told of ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1850)
"The children of WILLIAM Bushnell.—Josue, born the 6th of May, in the year 1644; Samuell, born the middle of September, in the year 1645 ; Rebeka, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1870)
"H. 9543 Bushnell. A Discourse on the Slavery Question. ... Bushnell. Reverses Needed. A Discourse delivered on the Sunday after the Disaster of Bull Run, ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"HORACE Bushnell It is enough to say of his work in this respect that it was ... Dr. Bushnell was not a student of this literature beyond a thorough and ..."

5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell New York: Harper & Brothers. n. ... What Horace Bushnell has done for Christianity and the world was the legitimate ..."

6. Notes of a Busy Life by Joseph Benson Foraker (1916)
"DEATHS OF GOVERNOR FOSTER AND GOVERNOR Bushnell. It was a singular coincidence that almost contemporaneously with the death of Senator Hanna the deaths also ..."

7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1881)
"Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell. New York: Harper & Brothers. n. ... What Horace Bushnell has done for Christianity and the world was the legitimate ..."

8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Horace Bushnell, Vicarious Sacrifice, New York, 1865, p. 107: " Vicarious sacrifice was in no way peculiar "). In this same general category belongs also ..."

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