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Tolstoy

[tohl-stoi, tol-; Russ. tuhl-stoi]

Tol·stoy

[tohl-stoi, tol-; Russ. tuhl-stoi]
noun
Leo or Lev Ni·ko·la·e·vich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich; Russ. lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] , Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Also, Tol·stoi.

Tol·stoy·an, Tol·stoi·an, adjective, noun
Tol·stoy·ism, noun
Tol·stoy·ist, noun
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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Tolstoy (ˈtɒlstɔɪ, Russian talˈstɔj)
 
n
Leo, Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828--1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865--69) and Anna Karenina (1875--77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil

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