Lyell

American  

[lahy-uhl] / ˈlaɪ əl /

noun

1. Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.

2. Mount, a mountain in E central California, in Yosemite National Park, in the Sierra Nevada. 13,114 feet (3,997 meters).

3. Also Lyall. a mountain on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, in the Rocky Mountains. 11,520 feet (3,511 meters).

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Lyell British  

/ ˈlaɪəl /

noun

1. Sir Charles. 1797–1875, Scottish geologist. In Principles of Geology (1830–33) he advanced the theory of uniformitarianism, refuting the doctrine of catastrophism

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Lyell Scientific  

/ lī′əl /

1. Scottish geologist who is considered one of the founders of modern geology. He is most famous for his principle of uniformitarianism, as first set forth in his three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833).

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Example Sentences

The writer and Harper’s editor Willie Morris, one of Lyell’s former students, described him as “a literary person in the best sense: he lived for literature.”

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Welty and Lyell were about the same age.

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Julia Eichelberger, a Welty scholar and the editor of this collection, notes that the first extant letter between Lyell and Welty is from 1931, after they’d been at Columbia a year.

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Lyell found his way to Austin, Texas, while Welty returned to her parents’ home on Pinehurst Street in Jackson.

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Though she cherished her hometown, in letters to her friend Welty sometimes chafed at its limitations: In 1933, she listed her home address in correspondence to Lyell as “Loose Ends, Mississippi.”

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