Bayle

[ beyl ]

noun

1. Pierre [pye, r], 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic.

Bayle

/ bɛl /

noun

1. BaylePierre16471706MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: critic Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists

Example Sentences

He also wrote a history of printing, and published a new edition of Bayle's Dictionnaire.

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It is, in my opinion, very singular that Bayle should pretend to be more severe than St. Augustine.

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Your own dingy well-thumbed Bayle or Moreri possibly cost you two or three pounds; his cost forty or fifty.

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Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister in a remote province of France, at the foot of the Pyrenees.

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It occasioned Bayle to commit a remarkable literary blunder, which I shall record in its place.

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