Charleton

American  

[chahrl-tn] / ˈtʃɑrl tn /

noun

1. a male given name.

---

Example Sentences

As a regional cardiac care center, Charleton Memorial handles referrals from an area between Rhode Island and Cape Cod.

From Washington Post

Like Digby and Charleton, he was a reader of van Helmont, so the word ‘fact’ came naturally to him.

From Literature

But for Digby and Charleton, who happened to be in the right place at the right time, but for the rapid translation of Pascal, and but for Salusbury’s translation of Galileo, there might have been no culture of the fact in England for another hundred years—there was no guarantee the English would become obsessed with facts a century before the Germans.

From Literature

Thus in 1654 Walter Charleton had offered a translation into English of two Latin phrases with which Gassendi had summarized the epistemology of Epicurus: ‘That Opinion is true, to which the Evidence of Sense doth either assent, or not dissent: and that false, to which the evidence of Sense doth either not assent, or dissent.’

From Literature

Charleton’s example is a figure walking towards us from a distance: at a certain point it becomes obvious that it is Plato.

From Literature