Linacre

[ lin-uh-ker ]

/ ˈlɪn ə kər /

noun

Thomas,1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.

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Examples from the Web for linacre

This professorship was an expansion of the natural science lectureships founded by the great Linacre.
Cambridge|Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
Empirical science at Cambridge dates from Linacre and Caius.
Cambridge|Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
Linacre, perhaps even more than his fellows, was cast in the mould that Humphrey would have approved.
Humphrey Duke of Gloucester|K.H. Vickers
One of their number, Linacre, who was also a prebendary of Westminster, busied himself with editions of certain writings of Galen.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

What can be more searching, deep, and refined than the judgement of Linacre?
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)|John Richard Green

British Dictionary definitions for linacre

Linacre

/ (ˈlɪnəkə) /

noun

Thomas. ?1460–1524, English humanist and physician: founded the Royal College of Physicians (1518)

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