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Brewer's: Doctored Dice
Loaded dice. To doctor the accounts. To falsify them. They are ill (so far as you are concerned) and you falsify them to make them look better. The allusion is to drugging wine, beer, etc…Brewer's: Doctored Wine
(See To Doctor.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doctour of Phisikes TaleDoctor's Stuff A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…Brewer's: Doctors' Commons
A locality near St. Paul's, where the ecelesiastical courts were formerly held, and wills preserved. To “common” means to dine together; a term still used at our universities. Doctors'…Brewer's: Doctors Disagree
Who shall decide when doctors disagree. When authorities differ, the question sub judiee must be left undecided. (Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 1.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Doctor's Stuff
Medicine; stuff sent from the doctor. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doctored WineDoctors Disagree A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Brewer's: Ecstatic Doctor
(The). Jean de Ruysbrock, the mystic (1294-1381). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894EcstaticiEcstasy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…Brewer's: Englightened Doctor
(The). Raymond Lully, of Palma, one of the most distinguished men of the thirteenth century. (1234-1315.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894EnniskillensE'nid…Brewer's: Evangelic Doctor
(The). John Wycliffe, “the morning star of the Reformation.” (1324-1384.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894EvangelineEuxine Sea A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Angelic Doctor
Thomas Aquinas was so called, because he discussed the knotty points in connection with the being and nature of angels. An example is, “Utrum Angelus moveatur de loco ad locum transeundo…Brewer's: Authentic Doctor
Gregory of Rimini. (Fourteenth century.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Auto da FeAut Cæsar aut nullus A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Trending
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