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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Athelstane

(3 syl.).

surnamed “The Unready” (i.e. impolitic, unwise), thane of Conningsburgh. (Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Athenæum
Athanasian Creed
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