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Gregory

[greg-uh-ree]

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Lady Augusta (Isabella Augusta Persse), 1852–1932, Irish dramatist.

Horace, 1898–1982, U.S. poet and critic.

James, 1638–75, Scottish mathematician.

a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “watchful.”

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Saint (“Gregory the Great”), a.d. c540–604, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 590–604.

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Saint, died a.d. 731, pope 715–731.

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Saint, died a.d. 741, pope 731–741.

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died a.d. 844, pope 827–844.

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(Bruno of Carinthia), died a.d. 999, German ecclesiastic: pope 996–999.

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(Johannes Gratianus), died 1048, German ecclesiastic: pope 1045–46.

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Saint (Hildebrand), c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.

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(Alberto de Mora or Alberto di Morra), died 1187, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1187.

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(Ugolino di Segni or Ugolino of Anagni), c1143–1241, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1227–41.

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(Teobaldo Visconti), c1210–76, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1271–76.

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(Pierre Roger de Beaufort), 1330–78, French ecclesiastic: pope 1370–78.

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(Angelo Correr, Corrario, or Corraro), c1327–1417, Italian ecclesiastic: installed as pope in 1406 and resigned office in 1415.

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(Ugo Buoncompagni), 1502–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1572–85, educator and innovator of the modern calendar.

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(Niccolò Sfandrati), 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.

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(Alessandro Ludovisi), 1554–1623, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1621–23.

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(Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari), 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.

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Gregory (ˈɡrɛɡərɪ)

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	Lady (Isabella) Augusta (Persse). 1852--1932, Irish dramatist; a founder and director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

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Gregory

male proper name, common in England and Scotland by 1143 (Gregory I sent the men who converted the English to Christianity), from L. Gregorius, from Gk. gregorios, a derivative of gregoros "to be watchful," from PIE base *ger- "to be awake" (cf. Skt. jagarti "he is awake," Avestan agarayeiti "wakes

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up, rouses"). At times confused with L. gregarius (see gregarious).

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