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Holopherʹnes (4 syl.)

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Master Tubal Holophernes. The great sophister-doctor, who, in the course of five years and three months, taught Gargantua to say his A B C backward. (Rabelais: Gargantua, book i. 14.)

Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Shakespeare satirises in this character the literary affections of the Lyly school. An anagram of Johʹnes Florio.

 

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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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Holy Alliance
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