Definition of Beecher

1. Noun. United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Beecher

Bedfordshire clanger
Bedfordshire clangers
Bedlington Terrier
Bedlington terrier
Bedloe's Island
Bednar's aphthae
Bednar tumour
Bedrich Smetana
Bedrock
Beduin
Bedwardite
Bedwardites
Bee
Beeb
Beebs
Beecher (current term)
Beechtree
Beefeater
Beefeaters
Beehive
Beehive State
Beehives
Beelzebub
Beelzebubian
Beelzebubs
Beer's knife
Beer's law
Beerbohm
Beerbohmian

Literary usage of Beecher

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"During his second residence in Boston Lyman Beecher prepared a collected edition of his Works (i, Lectures on Political Atheism and Kindred Subjects ..."

2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1906)
"John Beecher and Mary Wilmot, Feb. i, 1744. Thomas Beecher and Elizabeth Terrell, ... Lydia Beecher and David Hotchkiss, May 15, 1777. Mehitable Beecher ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"compared with the hardships on which Mr. and Mrs. Beecher were soon to enter in their Western parish. Beginning housekeeping on a meager salary, ..."

4. The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and by David Macrae (1870)
"IN New York, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Beecher, and hearing him preach and ... Take a single case : Beecher was walking down the Bowery one day, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1869)
"Beecher. Life Thoughts gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward ... 4317 Beecher. Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a Collection of Memorable ..."

6. Dictionary of American Authors by Oscar Fay Adams (1904)
"Daughter of L. Beecher, infra. A New England educator of much celebrity at one time, who wrote with the ardour of sincerest conviction. ..."

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