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MOREL , the surname of several See also:French classical scholars and printers in the 16th and 17th centuries, known for their See also:editions of classical authors and the Fathers. (I) See also:GUILLAUME MOREL (1505—1564) was See also:born at Tilleul in See also:Normandy. After acting as See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof-reader in a See also:Paris See also:firm, he set up for himself, and subsequently succeeded See also:Turnebus as 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 printer in 1555• His most important See also:work was See also:Thesaurus vocum omnium latinarum, containing a number of quotations from See also:Greek authors, taken from hitherto unpublished See also:MSS. in the 'Paris library: (2) FEDERIC (as he always called himself, not See also:Frederic) MOREL, surnamed the See also:Elder (1523—1583), was born in See also:Champagne. He was of See also:noble See also:family, and was not connected with Guillaume Morel. About 1550 he married the daughter of the famous printer, See also:Michel de Vascosan, in 1557 set up in business in the See also:rue See also:Saint See also:Jean de See also:Beauvais, and in 1571 was appointed printer to the king. His See also:chief publications were the Declamationes of See also:Quintilian and L'See also:Architecture de Philibert See also:Delorme. (3) FEDERrc MOREL, son of the preceding, surnamed the Younger (1558—1630), was one of the greatest Greek scholars of his 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. In addition to the management of his See also:father's business, to which he succeeded, he held the professorship of eloquence at the See also:College de See also:France. The number of his See also:translations and commentaries on the Fathers and classical authors (See also:Aristotle, Dio See also:Chrysostom, See also:Strabo) was very large; See also:special mention may be made of his revised edition of Amvot's See also:translation of See also:Plutarch and his Latin translations of some of the See also:dissertations of See also:Maximus of See also:Tyre, of See also:Libanius, See also:Hierocles and See also:Theodoret. His commentary on the See also:Psalms is still considered valuable. (4) See also:CLAUDE MOREL (1574—1626), See also:brother of the preceding, also published editions of many of the Fathers and other authors, with learned prefaces and notes. (5) See also:CHARLES MOREL (1602—1640) was printer and secretary to the king. He followed the example of the other members of his family, and issued the See also:works of See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria, See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory of Nazianzus, See also:Cyril, See also:Synesius and Chrysostom, and the Concilia genera-Ha et provineialia of the See also:German theologian Severin Bini. (6) GILLES MOREL, brother of the preceding (the See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death are unknown), was the last representative of this learned family. The number of his publications was small, but some of them were of See also:great importance, the chief being the Grande bibliotheque See also:des pores, in 17 See also:folio vols. (1643).
See M. Maittaire, Historia typographorum See also:aliquot parisiensium (1717), for all the above; Federic Morel the See also:eider is the subject of a monograph by J. See also:Dumoulin (Paris, 1901).
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