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Tooke

[ took ]

noun

  1. (John) Horne [hawrn], 1736–1812, English politician and philologist.


Tooke

/ tʊk /

noun

  1. TookeJohn Horne17361812MBritishPOLITICS: radical politicianWRITING: writer 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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As I was finishing this worke, an oyster-wife tooke exception against me and called me knave.

We neuer tooke any of them our selves, but sometime eate of such as the inhabitants had taken & brought vnto vs.

Horne Tooke pronounced it a bad book, calculated to do harm.

Tooke gives a curious account of his action on this occasion.

Mr. Tooke concludes with a case of self-accension, noticed by Mr. Hagemann, an apothecary, at Bremen.

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