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Brewer's: Austin Friars

Friars of the Order of St. Augustine. (See Begging.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Austrian LipAuster A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…

Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses

// Cite Astronomers, astrophysicists, chemists, and physicists Jump to a category: AstronomersAstrophysicistsChemistsPhysicists Astronomers Adams, John Couch Al-…

Brewer's: Hippo

Bishop of Hippo. A title by which St. Augustine is sometimes desigated. (354-430.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HippocampusHipper-switches A B C D E…

Brewer's: Fathers of the Latin Church

Lactantius, Hilary, Ambrose of Milan, Jerome, Augustin of Hippo, and St. Bernard. The last of the fathers. St. Bernard (1091-1153). The schoolmen who followed treated their subjects…

Brewer's: Dusiens

The name given by the Gauls to those demons that produce nightmares. “Dæmones quos `duscios' Galli nuncupant”- St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei, chap. xxiii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Bishop of Hippo

St. Augustine. (354-430) is often so referred to. He held the See for many years. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bishop's ApronBishop in Partibus A B C D…

Brewer's: Parmenianists

A name given to the Donatists; so called from Parmenianus, Bishop of Carthage, the great antagonist of Augustine. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Parmesan'…