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Cec⋅il

[ses-uhl, sis- or, for 5, see-suhl]
–noun
1. (Edgar Algernon) Robert (1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood), 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel peace prize 1937.
2. Robert (1st Earl of Salisbury and 1st Viscount Cecil of Cranborne), 1563–1612, British statesman (son of William Cecil).
3. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-. Salisbury (def. 1).
4. William (1st Baron Burghley or Burleigh), 1520–98, British statesman: adviser to Elizabeth I.
5. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blind.”

Gas⋅coyne-Cec⋅il

[gas-koin-ses-uhl]
–noun
Robert Arthur Tal⋅bot [tawl-buht] , 3rd Marquis of Salisbury. Salisbury (def. 1).
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Cecil 
proper name, and fem. Cecilia, from L. Cæcilius, fem. Cæcilia, name of a Roman gens, from cæcus "blind."
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