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Definition of Bernard
1. Noun. French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878).
Definition of Bernard
1. Proper noun. (Germanic male given name). ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname from=given names patronymic) ¹
3. Noun. Shortened form of Saint Bernard (''the dog''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Bernard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Bernard is also the author of a number of theological treatises; "Abrégé de la
... Bernard of Besse, Friar Minor and chronicler, a native of Aquitaine, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"CLAUDE Bernard was born on the twelfth of July, 1813, and died on the tenth ...
If what is called genius ever belongs to men of science, Claude Bernard was ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"A fourth army, under old Marshal LA Force, was to cooperate with Bernard of Weimar
in the defence of the Rhine. But, notwithstanding the diplomatic ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"holy orators; and among these, Bernard,*8 the monk, or the saint, may claim the
most honourable place.* About eight years before the first conquest of ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Bernard became abbot of the last. To these establishments others were added by
Citeaux and the ... The foremost representative of this idea is Bernard (cf. ..."