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Abingdon
[ ab-ing-duhn ]
noun
- a town in S Oxfordshire, in S England, on the Thames: site of Benedictine abbey founded 7th century a.d.
Abingdon
/ ˈæbɪŋdən /
noun
- a market town in S England, in Oxfordshire. Pop: 36 010 (2001)
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Lords Brougham and Abingdon commended the measure as far as it went; but they still thought it incomplete.
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All he did was dining at the ordinary at Abingdon; and he got into parliament for the moderate sum of eighteen-pence!
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In 1327, the scholars and citizens of Oxford pillaged the opulent Benedictine abbey of the neighbouring town of Abingdon.
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Mr. Blower afterwards removed to Abingdon, in Berks, where he died in 1701.
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Good Master Roysse was one of the many charitable benefactors who seem to have flourished in the genial soil of Abingdon.
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