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Littré

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[lee-trey] / liˈtreɪ /

noun

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


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M. Littré does not say so explicitly, though this is a conceivable theory. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

He would ask: ‘Does M. Littré accept the alleged facts; if so, how does he explain them?’

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

The same passage is, however, repeated twice in the Hippocratic writings, viz. in the περι φυσιος ανθρωπου, On the nature of man, Littré, vi.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

This idea is clearly hinted at by Littré.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

But as he was then a détenu at Clairvaux, Bastide and Littré filled the editorial chair during the interregnum.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

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