Absalom, a son of David, who rebelled against his father, and at whose death David gave vent to a bitter wail of grief. A name given by Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Abruz`zi * Absolute, TheAbsalom in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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Atterbury, Francis
Carpenter, Nathaniel
Cooper, Anthony Ashley
Coward, William
Dryden, John
Duche De Vancy, Joseph Francis
Finch, Heneage
Morland, Sir Samuel, Bart.
Tate, Nahum
Villiers, George [No. 3]
Virgil, In Latin, Publius Virgiuus Maro,