Bayle

[ beyl ]

/ beɪl /

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noun

Pierre

[pyer], /pyɛr/, 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic.

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How to use Bayle in a sentence

He also wrote a history of printing, and published a new edition of Bayle's Dictionnaire.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
It is, in my opinion, very singular that Bayle should pretend to be more severe than St. Augustine.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Your own dingy well-thumbed Bayle or Moreri possibly cost you two or three pounds; his cost forty or fifty.
The Book-Hunter|John Hill Burton
Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister in a remote province of France, at the foot of the Pyrenees.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings|Edward Gibbon

It occasioned Bayle to commit a remarkable literary blunder, which I shall record in its place.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)|Isaac D'Israeli

British Dictionary definitions for Bayle

Bayle

/ (French bɛl) /

noun

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

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