Definition of The admirable crichton

1. Noun. Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582).

Exact synonyms: Crichton, James Crichton
Generic synonyms: Bookman, Scholar, Scholarly Person, Student

Lexicographical Neighbors of The Admirable Crichton

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Thatcherising
Thatcherism
Thatcherist
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Thatcherite
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Thatcherization
Thatcherize
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Thatcherizing
Thayer-Martin agar
Thayer-Martin medium
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The Book of Mormon
The Boy Orator of the Platte
The Bronx
The Centaur
The Ditch
The Emergency
The End
The English Hippocrates
The Enlightened One
The Father of Radio
The Few
The Gambia

Literary usage of The admirable crichton

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

1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"the admirable crichton. " Signer Giacomo caro, non vi accorgete che sete un giovane senza pare! Nobile, bello, dotto, e robusto, ed alto quasi ..."

2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"We may refer the reader, whether he is curious after the Admirable Crichton, or after his own amusement solely, to William Harrison Ainsworth's last romance ..."

3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"... the society's possession, but at length a paper written, it is supposed, by the respectable biographer of the Admirable Crichton and Sir Thomas Craig, ..."

4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... it is supposed, by the respectable biographer of the Admirable Crichton and Sir Thomas Craig, appeared in Blackwood's ¡Magazine, in which Callander is ..."

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