Tooke

[ took ]

/ tʊk /

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noun

(John) Horne

[hawrn], /hɔrn/, 1736–1812, English politician and philologist.

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Words nearby Tooke

too close to call, toodle-oo, Tooele, too good to be true, took, Tooke, tool, toolbar, toolbox, tooled up, tool engineering

How to use Tooke in a sentence

As I was finishing this worke, an oyster-wife tooke exception against me and called me knave.
A Cursory History of Swearing|Julian Sharman
We neuer tooke any of them our selves, but sometime eate of such as the inhabitants had taken & brought vnto vs.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land Of Virginia, 1590|Thomas Hariot
Horne Tooke pronounced it a bad book, calculated to do harm.
Mary Wollstonecraft|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Tooke gives a curious account of his action on this occasion.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen

Mr. Tooke concludes with a case of self-accension, noticed by Mr. Hagemann, an apothecary, at Bremen.
The Book of Curiosities|I. Platts

British Dictionary definitions for Tooke

Tooke

/ (tʊk) /

noun

John Horne, original name John Horne. 1736–1812, British radical, who founded (1771) the Constitutional Society to press for parliamentary reform: acquitted (1794) of high treason. He also wrote the philological treatise The Diversions of Purley (1786)

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