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Terrestrial Sun (That)

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Gold, which in alchemy was the metal corresponding to the sun, as silver did to the moon. (Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici, p. 149, 3.)

 

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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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Tenth Legion (The)
Tenth Wave
Tercel
Terence
Teresa (St.)
Term Time
Term Time of our Universities
Termagant
Terpsichore (properly Terp-sik-o-re, but often pronounced Terp-si-core)
Terra Firma
Terrestrial Sun (That)
Terrible (The)
Terrier
Terry Alts
Tertium Quid
Terza Rima
Tesserarian Art
Tester
Tête-à-tête
Tête Bottée [Booted Head]
Tete du Pont