Select Search
-----
All Bartleby.com
-----
All Reference
-----
Columbia Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia
Cultural Literacy
World Factbook
Columbia Gazetteer
American Heritage Coll.
Dictionary
Roget's Thesauri
Roget's II: Thesaurus
Roget's Int'l Thesaurus
Quotations
Bartlett's Quotations
Columbia Quotations
Simpson's Quotations
Respectfully Quoted
English Usage
Modern Usage
American English
Fowler's King's English
Strunk's Style
Mencken's Language
Cambridge History
The King James Bible
Oxford Shakespeare
Gray's Anatomy
Farmer's Cookbook
Post's Etiquette
Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Bulfinch's Mythology
Frazer's Golden Bough
-----
All Verse
-----
Anthologies
Dickinson, E.
Eliot, T.S.
Frost, R.
Hopkins, G.M.
Keats, J.
Lawrence, D.H.
Masters, E.L.
Sandburg, C.
Sassoon, S.
Whitman, W.
Wordsworth, W.
Yeats, W.B.
-----
All Nonfiction
-----
Harvard Classics
American Essays
Einstein's Relativity
Grant, U.S.
Roosevelt, T.
Wells's History
Presidential Inaugurals
-----
All Fiction
-----
Shelf of Fiction
Ghost Stories
Short Stories
Shaw, G.B.
Stein, G.
Stevenson, R.L.
Wells, H.G.
Reference
>
Brewer’s Dictionary
> Abdael (2 syl.).
Abd
Abdall’ah,
CONTENTS
·
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Abdael (2 syl.).
George Monk, third Duke of Albemarle.
1
“Brave Abdael o’er the prophets’ school was placed:
Abdael, with all his father’s virtues graced …
Without one Hebrew’s blood, restored the crown.”
Dryden and Tait: Absalom and Achitophel,
Part ii.
Tate’s blunder for Abdiel (
q.v.
).
2
Abd
Abdall’ah,
Click
here
to shop the
Bartleby Bookstore
.
Welcome
·
Press
·
Advertising
·
Linking
·
Terms of Use
· © 2008
Bartleby.com
Tate’s blunder for Abdiel (q.v.).
