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Eliot

[ el-ee-uht, el-yuht ]

noun

  1. Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
  2. George Mary Ann Evans, 1819–80, English novelist.
  3. John the Apostle of the Indians, 1604–90, American colonial missionary.
  4. Sir John, 1592–1632, English statesman.
  5. T(homas) S(tearns) [sturnz], 1888–1965, British poet and critic, born in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1948.
  6. a male given name, form of Elias.


Eliot

/ ˈɛlɪət /

noun

  1. EliotGeorge18191880FEnglishWRITING: novelist George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
  2. EliotSir John15921632MEnglishPOLITICS: statesman Sir John. 1592–1632, English statesman, a leader of parliamentary opposition to Charles I
  3. EliotT(homas) S(tearns)18881965MBritishUSWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: critic T ( homas ) S ( tearns ). 1888–1965, British poet, dramatist, and critic, born in the US His poetry includes Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Among his verse plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1950), and The Confidential Clerk (1954): Nobel prize for literature 1948


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So Eliot proposed to four successive presidents of Boston Tech that it and Harvard join forces.

Eliot said he thought Shakespeare failed to use the objective correlative in Hamlet because the play is so full of the title character angsting all over the place about how he feels.

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“It Had to Be You,” by Georgia ClarkLiv and Eliot are a married couple running a wedding business — until Eliot dies while visiting his young girlfriend, Savannah.

You recently gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard and you were the first jazz musician to do so.

This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice.

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog.

Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigations tools and techniques.

Austen, Eliot, and James sometimes complemented their essential seriousness with humorous minor characters and subplots.

As George Eliot says: “We get the fonder of our houses if they have a physiognomy of their own, as our friends have.”

Miss Eliot had too rashly taken the alarm, as Mrs. G.'s sort, though confluent, was a very good one.

I did not send a copy of my vindication to Port Eliot, nor indeed to any person except to yourself.

Eliot must be in town in a fortnight to a very severe call of the House.

Mrs. Eliot is in town; but I am quite ignorant (not more so than they are themselves) of their intentions.

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