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defender [di′fen·dər] (industrial engineering) A machine or facility which is being considered for replacement. Defender Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925) defended Creationism in famous Scopes trial. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 383–384] Jesuit theologian; buttressed Catholic faith against Protestantism. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 276] halts Susanna’s execution; gets her acquitted. [Apocrypha: Daniel and Susanna] (1857–1938) lawyer; Bryan’s nemesis in Scopes trial (1925). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 131] Henry VIII as defender of the papacy against Martin Luther (1521). [Br. Hist.: EB, 8: 769–772] father-son lawyer team in early 1960s. [TV: Terrace, I, 197] Miriam’s ardent friend ever ready to defend her. [Am. Lit.: The Marble Faun] bravely defended Troy against Greek siege for ten years. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] detective novels and TV series feature courtroom drama by lawyer. [Am. Lit.: Gardner, Erie Stanley, in EB, IV: 416; Radio: Buxton, 186–187; TV: Terrace, II, 199] defender of the parish of Oare in Somerset. [Br. Lit.: Lorna Doone, Magill I, 524–526] (1840–1902) attacked Army cover-up of Dreyfus affair in J ’accuse (1898). [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 60] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. The warm defender of the sacredness of the family re- lation is the same that scatters whole families,--sun- dering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers,--leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate. Again, the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there; for it will always happen that such a one will be introduced by those who are discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear, as one has seen already. |
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