,—when applied to great men, means fame, renown. Thus George III. and Dionysius, Burke and Thomas Paine, Pitt and Robespierre, Bishop Horsley and Bishop Bonmer, have all got names.
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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.
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