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acton
1[ ak-tuhn ]
noun
- a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
Acton
2[ ak-tuhn ]
noun
- Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron, 1834–1902, English historian.
- a former municipal borough in SE England, now part of the London borough of Ealing: center of Puritanism at the time of Cromwell.
- a city in NE Massachusetts.
acton
1/ ˈæktən /
noun
- a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
- a leather jacket padded with mail
Acton
2/ ˈæktən /
noun
- ActonJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton18341902MEnglishHISTORY: historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron. 1834–1902, English historian: a proponent of Christian liberal ethics and adviser of Gladstone
- ActonSir John Francis Edward17361811MEnglishMILITARY: naval commanderPOLITICS: statesman his grandfather, Sir John Francis Edward. 1736–1811, European naval commander and statesman: admiral of Tuscany (1774–79) and Naples (1779 onwards) and chief minister of Naples (1779–1806)
Acton
3/ ˈæktən /
noun
- a district of the London borough of Ealing
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When Acton died in 1953, no will was found and his estate was inherited by Harold.
New York University was not thunderstruck by the news that Sir Harold Acton had left the school his estate when he died in 1994.
Acton had no heirs and initially offered to leave his estate to Oxford, but the offer was turned down.
Arthur Acton decided to go into business with a neighbor in Florence, Bernard Berenson.
She and her family have been in litigation with NYU over the Acton estate since his death.
From their father, Currer, Ellis, and Acton derived a strong will.
Acton, ak′tun, n. a stuffed leather jacket which used to be worn under a coat of mail.
The greatest blank in the shining page was the memory of Acton Hague, of which he inveterately tried to rid himself.
He was further conscious that he showed his companion a white face when he turned round on her gasping: “Acton Hague!”
His tide had ebbed, not flowed; if he had “forgiven” Acton Hague, that forgiveness was a motive with a broken spring.
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