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Atlantʹis

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A mythic island which contained the Elysian Fields.

The New Atlantis. An island imagined by Lord Bacon, where was established a philosophical commonwealth bent on the cultivation of the natural sciences. (See Utopia, City of the Sun.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Atlantean Shoulders
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Atlantic Ocean
Atlantis
Atlas
Atman
Atomic Philosophy
Atomic Theory
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Atomic Weight
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Attaint
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