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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calvin \Cal"vin\ n. 1. John Calvin, a French theologian and reformer; born 1509, died 1564.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
John Calvin (1509-1564), Protestant leader, born Jean Caulvin , the surname related to French Chauvin (compare chauvinism ), from Latin calvus "bald," from PIE *kle-wo- "bald."

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Calvin is a fictional character , and is the title character of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson . Calvin demonstrates a level of wisdom, vocabulary and humor unusual for a six-year-old boy. However, he is a stereotyped six-year-old and ...

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Considered the rising star in the academic community, Chamberlain accepts a prestigious Chair at Bowdoin, formerly held by the renowned Calvin Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age,--at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Practically nothing was defined save what had already been taken up in the Augsburg Confession or in the writings of Calvin, of Zwingli and of the Anabaptists.

To human eyes, a Calvin cycler was a shiny metal coffin built for a minivan: to the botfly it was a muted tangle of EM emissions.

I was stationed in Paris and occasionally in London at that time, and fascinating though those capitals were to a young American happy to have escaped from the incredible smugness and emptiness of the Calvin Coolidge era, they paled a little when one came to Berlin and Munich.

Nike and Foot Locker, Abercrombie and the Gap, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Gadzooks and Wet Seal.

The Genevese were not then so rich in literature as they afterwards became, and they were not prepared to answer the challenge, when Calvin did it for them.

Which made Calvin wonder if there was fog along the coast, too, and fog between the Mexica lands and the lands that Tenskwa-Tawa had taken under his protection.

It was quite a scramble to find all the muskets and close them off before the tiring started, but it helped that the Mexica commander kept shouting for them to surrender, while the panicky horses kept the Mexica in an uproar long enough for Calvin to finish the job.

Two priests cut their clothing open and laid bare their chests, and Calvin could hear the screaming as one by one they had their hearts torn from them and held up as an offering to whatever god the Mexica thought might prevent the eruption of Popocatepetl.

A man Millhouse called Calvin opened the door and pushed her inside with Trent and the others.

Monday 9am Byron Lars, 11am Mark Eisen, 2pm Nicole Miller, 6pm Ghost, Tuesday 10am Ralph Lauren, Wednesday 11am Anna Sui, 2pm Calvin Klein, 4pm Bill Blass, 7pm Isaac Mizrahi, Thursday 9am Donna Karan, 5pm Todd Oldham and on and on until Sunday.

To lose his Augustine, and his Calvin, and his Musculus, and his Zanchius, and his Amesius, and his Suarez, and his Estius was a sore stroke to such a man.

Calvin had found Gene following the Ophion through steep terrain as it wound its way among the Nemesis Mountains of Crius, the day region just west of Rhea.

Breaking and entering, robbery, larceny, aggravated assault--the crime rate in Newport has successfully been cut in half since Chief Calvin and I sat down to map out an anticrime strategy at the beginning of his tenure here.