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• Abélard
  Abélard

  noun

  Pierre Peter Abelard, 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher, teacher, and theologian. His love affair with Heloïse is one of the famous romances in history.
• Abelard
  Abelard

  noun

  Peter. French name Pierre Abélard. 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher and theologian whose works include Historia Calamitatum and Sic et Non (1121). His love for Héloïse is recorded in their correspondence

Abélard

American  

[ab-uh-lahrd, a-bey-lar] / ˈæb əˌlɑrd, a beɪˈlar /

noun

1. Pierre Peter Abelard, 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher, teacher, and theologian. His love affair with Heloïse is one of the famous romances in history.

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Abelard British  

/ ˈæbəˌlɑːd /

noun

1. Peter. French name Pierre Abélard. 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher and theologian whose works include Historia Calamitatum and Sic et Non (1121). His love for Héloïse is recorded in their correspondence

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Example Sentences

A single unfortunate incident, that of Abélard and Héloïse, seems to have been sufficient to discourage efforts in the direction of opportunities for feminine education in connection with the Western universities.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph

William of Champeaux had rested on a Platonic basis, Abélard assumed that of Aristotle, and the clash began.

From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter

Abélard died in the monastery of St. Marcel, and was buried in the vaults of the church.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot

At either pole are the accidents of supreme failure and supreme success—the supreme failure of an Abélard for instance, the supreme success of a Napoleon, enthroned at Paris.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

In the discussion of them Abélard collects passages from the scriptures and from the fathers in favour of two distinctly opposite solutions.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey