Littré

American  

[lee-trey] / liˈtreɪ /

noun

1. Maximilien Paul Émile 1801–88, French lexicographer and philosopher.

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Example Sentences

As a consequence "learning," as it was understood by Casaubon, Scaliger, Bentley, Johnson, and Gibbon, as it was understood by Littré, Döllinger, and Mommsen, may be said to have disappeared in England.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic

M. Littré was a savant whom nobody accused of superstition, and France possessed no clearer intellect. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

Morality," says Littré, "is the whole collection of rules which determine our conduct towards others.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

There are glands19 also in the walls of the seminal vesicles, the vasa deferentia, and the urethra; the urethral glands are commonly known as the glands of Littré.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

This fact, as is judiciously remarked by M. Littré, is not valid against the plan of M. Comte's classification, but discloses a slight error in the detail.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart