Definition of Comstock

1. Noun. United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Comstock

Comoros
Comox
CompTIA
Complute
Complutensian
Compositae
Composite order
Compton
Compton effect
Compton scattering
Comptonia
Comptonia asplenifolia
Comptonia peregrina
Comptroller General
Comptroller of the Currency
Comstock (current term)
Comstock's mealybug
Comstock mealybug
Comstockery
Comte
Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
Comte de Mirabeau
Comte de Rochambeau
Comtean
Comtesse Du Barry
Comtian
Comtism
Comtist
Comtists
Con-Dem

Literary usage of Comstock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"His first American ancestor was William Comstock, of New London, Conn., who was among the twenty-six men from Wethersfield in the expedition commanded by ..."

2. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"Mrs. Comstock swung open the screen door and struck at some object, Elnora tossed the hair from ... blazed Mrs. Comstock. "When did you get to bossing me? ..."

3. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"The grade decreases with increasing depth. Comstock Lode, Nev. ... The Comstock lode has a certain distinction, also, as the place where Philip Deidesheimer ..."

4. A Commentary on the Mining Legislation of Congress: With a Preliminary by Edward P. Weeks (1877)
"Conditions inserted in patents for mines on Comstock Lode, Nevada.—In issuing patents for the Com- stock Lode, Nevada, the following clause has been ..."

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