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Ar⋅buth⋅not

[ahr-buhth-nuht, ahr-buhth-not]
–noun
John, 1667–1735, Scottish satirist and physician: friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
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Ar·buth·not   (är-bŭth'nət, är'bəth-nŏt')   
Scottish physician and writer noted for his satirical anti-Whig pamphlets published as Law Is a Bottomless Pit (1712) and later retitled The History of John Bull.
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