edward h clarendon
ən noun
1.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of, 1609–74, British statesman and historian.
2.
Council of, the ecumenical council (1164) occasioned by the opposition of Thomas à Becket to Henry II.
3.
(lowercase) Printing. a condensed form of printing type, like roman in outline but with thicker serifs.
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clarendon (ˈklærəndən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| printing a style of boldface roman type | |
| [C20: named after the Clarendon Press at Oxford University] | |
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Clarendon1 (ˈklærəndən) | |
| —n | |
| a village near Salisbury in S England: site of a council held by Henry II in 1164 that produced a code of laws (the Constitutions of Clarendon) defining relations between church and state | |
| Clarendon2 (ˈklærəndən) | |
| —n | |
| 1st Earl of, title of Edward Hyde. 1609--74, English statesman and historian; chief adviser to Charles II (1660--67); author of History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (1704--07) | |
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