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Mentor

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A guide, a wise and faithful counsellor; so called from Mentor, a friend of Ulysses, whose form Minerva assumed when she accompanied Telemachos in his search for his father. (Fénelon: Télémaque.)

 

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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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Mendoza (Daniel)
Menechmians
Menecrates
Manevia
Meng-tse
Menie
Menippos
Mennonites
Menstruum means a monthly dissolvent (Latin, mensis)
Mental Hallucinations
Mentor
Menu
Meo Periculo (Latin)
Mephibosheth
Mephistopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus
Mercador Amante
Mercator’s Projection is Mercator’s chart or map for nautical purposes
Merchant of Venice
Mercia
Mercurial
Mercurial Finger (The)

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