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Ussher

noun
1.
Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).  Synonyms: James Usher, James Ussher, Usher.






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"Ussher" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary to import an English Archbishop Browne[78] and an English Bishop Bale, or there might not have been a single Protestant in Ireland. It was well to enrich the rolls of the Church of Ireland with the piety and learning of Ussher, and to give her in Bedell one name, at least, which carries the double crown of the hero and the saint. But, after the Restoration, by degrees the practice degenerated, and Englishmen were appointed in numbers to the Irish Episcopate ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.



Words linked to "Ussher" :   prelate, James Usher, hierarch, archpriest, high priest, primate



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