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BOWDLER . See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1754—1825), editor of the "` See also:family " See also:Shakespeare, younger son of Thomas Bawdier, a See also:gentleman ofindependent See also:fortune, was See also:born at See also:Ashley, near See also:Bath, on the 1th of See also:July 1754. He studied See also:medicine at the See also:universities of St See also:Andrews and See also:Edinburgh, graduating M.D. in 1776. After four years spent in See also:foreign travel, he settled in See also:London, where he became intimate with Mrs Montague and other learned ladies. In 1800 he See also:left London to live in the Isle of See also:Wight, and later on he removed to See also:South See also:Wales. He was an energetic philanthropist, and carried on See also:John See also:Howard's See also:work in the prisons and penitentiaries. In 1818 he published The Family Shakespeare " in ten volumes, in which nothing is added to the See also:original See also:text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Criticisms of this edition appeared in the See also:British Critic of See also:April 1822. Bowdler also expurgated See also:Edward See also:Gibbon's See also:History of the Decline and Fall of the See also:Roman See also:Empire (published posthumously, 1826); and he issued a selection from the Old Testament for the use of See also:children. He died at Rhyddings, near See also:Swansea, on the 24th of See also:February 1825.
From Bowdler's name we have the word to " bowdlerize," first known to occur in See also:General Perronet See also:Thompson's Letters of a Representative to his Constituents during the Session of 1836, printed in Thompson's Exercises, iv. 126. The See also:official See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation is " to expurgate (a See also:book or See also:writing) by omitting or modifying words or passages considered indelicate or offensive." Both the word and its derivatives, however, are associated with false squeamishness.
In the ridicule poured on the name of Bowdler it is See also:worth noting that See also:Swinburne in " Social See also:Verse " (Studies in See also:Prose and See also:Poetry, 1894, p.
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