Definition of Bayle

1. a barrier [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayle

bayberries
bayberry
bayberry bark
bayberry tallow
bayberry wax
baye
bayed
bayerite
bayerites
bayes theorem
bayfront
bayfronts
baying
bayings
bayldonite
bayle (current term)
bayles
bayleyite
baylike
baylisascariasis
baylissite
bayman
baymen
bayonet
bayonet forceps
bayonet hair
bayoneted
bayoneting
bayonetings
bayonets

Literary usage of Bayle

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

1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"bayle. WHY has Louis Racine treated bayle like a dangerous man, ... He compares bayle, whose logical acuteness detected the errors of opposing systems, ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"But of bayle and Baillet at least something must be said particularly, and something ... bayle perhaps needed nothing but better taste, greater freedom from ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"But of bayle and Baillet at least something must be said particularly, and something also of a remarkable and much less known continuator of the latter. ..."

4. The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Robert Latta (1898)
"Leibniz's answer to this appears in the Reponse aux Reflexions de bayle ... bayle allows that Leibniz's view contains the promise of a theory which will ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"After a long quarrel bayle was deprived of his chair in 1693. ... The Nouvelles de la république des lettres (see Louis P. Betz, P. bayle und die Nouvelles ..."

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