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Plotinist
A disciple of Plotinus a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being to whom it reunited at death
Pietist
One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display...
Piccadil
A high stiff collar for the neck also a hem or band about the skirt of a garment worn by men in the 17th century
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Picard
One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century so called from one Picard of Flanders See Adamite
Clifford's Inn
Clifford's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. Anciently the town residence of the Barons Clifford, and demised in 1345 to a body of students of law. It was the most important of the Inns of Chancery and...
Divine Right
Divine Right, the title whereby, particularly in the seventeenth century, English sovereigns claimed to reign. See NON-RESISTANCE.
Coalition government
Coalition government, by a coalition of parties. Chambers Concise, 20th Century Dictionary, Davidson, Seaton and Simpson, p. 184. is by a coalition of parties formed when political parties unite to secure majority in Parliament over other...
Quaker
Quaker, the statutory, as well as the popular, name of a member of the religious Society of Friends. The society was founded by George Fox about the middle of the seventeenth century, and gained many adherents...
Lloyd's
Lloyd's. in the second half of the seventeenth century a number of merchants, ship-owners, and insurance brokers were accustomed to meet in Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London. From these meetings arose the present...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...
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