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Definition of Blake
1. Noun. Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827).
Definition of Blake
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English from=Middle English dot=), derived from ''black'' (dark haired), or from Old English blac, ''pale'' or ''fair''. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname from=Irish dot=) anglicised from (etyl ga) (term Ó Bláthmhaic lang=ga). ¹
3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surnames. ¹
4. Proper noun. (context: rather rare) (surnames female given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blake
Literary usage of Blake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the originals,
... The Lyrical Poems of William Blake. Text by John Sampson, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1916)
"To my sonne William Blake, clarcke, £200 out of the rent of my lease at Chil-
boulton. To my sonne Peter Blake £200. To my daughters Margarett Terry, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, During by William B. Drury, Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Robert R. Warren, Ireland High Court of Chancery (1844)
"Blake. 1842. Nov. 18. 1 HIS case came before the Court upon exceptions to the
The established ... between George Blake of the one part, and John Blake of ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"GG Blake, JAMES (1649-1728), also known as JAMES CROSS, Jesuit, born in London
in 1649, entered the Society of Jesus at Watten, in Belgium, in 1676, ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Allan Cunningham describes him by saying that Blake at ten years of age was an
... Most of what Blake learned he taught himself, and that at haphazard. ..."
6. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"Protector.1 Blake now wrote that the Plate Fleet was expected in four or five
weeks, and that he intended to range the sea between the Portuguese and ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the originals,
... The Lyrical Poems of William Blake. Text by John Sampson, ..."
8. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1916)
"To my sonne William Blake, clarcke, £200 out of the rent of my lease at Chil-
boulton. To my sonne Peter Blake £200. To my daughters Margarett Terry, ..."
9. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, During by William B. Drury, Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Robert R. Warren, Ireland High Court of Chancery (1844)
"Blake. 1842. Nov. 18. 1 HIS case came before the Court upon exceptions to the
The established ... between George Blake of the one part, and John Blake of ..."
10. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"GG Blake, JAMES (1649-1728), also known as JAMES CROSS, Jesuit, born in London
in 1649, entered the Society of Jesus at Watten, in Belgium, in 1676, ..."
11. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Allan Cunningham describes him by saying that Blake at ten years of age was an
... Most of what Blake learned he taught himself, and that at haphazard. ..."
12. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"Protector.1 Blake now wrote that the Plate Fleet was expected in four or five
weeks, and that he intended to range the sea between the Portuguese and ..."
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