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See also:MENAGE, GILLES (1613-1692) , See also:French See also:scholar, son of See also:Guillaume Menage, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:advocate at See also:Angers, was See also:born in that See also:city on the 15th of See also:August 1613. A tenacious memory and an See also:early See also:enthusiasm for learning carried him speedily through his See also:literary and professional studies, and he practised at the See also:bar at Angers as early as 1632. In the same See also:year he pleaded several causes before the See also:parlement of See also:Paris. but illness induced him to abandon the legal profession for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church.. He became See also:prior of See also:Montdidier without taking See also:holy orders, and lived for some years in the See also:household of See also:Cardinal de See also:Retz (then coadjutor to the See also:archbishop of Paris), where he had leisure for literary pursuits. Some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after 1648 he quarrelled with his See also:patron and withdrew to a See also:house in the See also:cloister of Notre-See also:Dame, where he gathered See also:round him on Wednesday evenings those literary assemblies which he called " Mercuriales." See also:Chapelain, See also:Pellisson, See also:Conrart, See also:Sarrazin and Du See also:Bos were among the habitues. He was admitted to the Della Cruscan See also:Academy of See also:Florence, but his See also:caustic See also:sarcasm led to his exclusion from the French Academy. Menage made many enemies and suffered under the See also:satire of Boileau and of See also:Moliere. Moliere immortalized him as the See also:pedant Vadius in See also:Les Femmes savantes, a portrait Menage pretended to ignore. He died in Paris on the 23rd of See also:July 1692.
Of his See also:works the following may be mentioned: Poemata See also:latina, gallica, graeca, et italica (1656) ; Origin della lingua italiana (x669) ; Dictionnaire etymologique (165o and 1670); Observations sur la langue franiaise (1672-1676), and See also:Anti-See also:Baillet (169o).
End of Article: MENAGE, GILLES (1613-1692)
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