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Ad⋅di⋅son

[ad-uh-suhn]
–noun
1. Joseph, 1672–1719, English essayist and poet.
2. Thomas, 1793–1860, English physician.
3. a town in NE Illinois. 28,836.
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Ad·di·son   (ād'ĭ-sən)   
A village of northeast Illinois, a residential and industrial suburb of Chicago. Population: 37,000.
Addison, Joseph 1672-1719.  
English essayist whose witty and elegant works appeared in The Tatler, founded by Richard Steele in 1709, and The Spectator, founded by Addison and Steele in 1711.
Ad'di·so'ni·an (-sō'nē-ən) adj.
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Addison Ad·di·son (ād'ĭ-sən), Thomas. 1793-1860.

English physician who first described (1849) Addison's disease and Addison's anemia.

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