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Definition of Beecher
1. Noun. United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887).
Generic synonyms: Abolitionist, Emancipationist, Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beecher
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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