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Definition of Gaspar
1. Noun. (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus.
Category relationships: New Testament
Group relationships: Magi, Wise Men
Generic synonyms: Sage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaspar
Literary usage of Gaspar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"Gaspar. Thou wilt be proud to hear how thy messenger was honored. ... Gaspar.
I gave thy letter to the porter, who passed it from lackey to lackey till it ..."
2. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"Gaspar de Aguilar was, as Lope tells us, the rival of Tarrega.' He was secretary
to the Viscount Chelva, and afterwards major-domo to the Duke of Gandia, ..."
3. The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England by Alexander Brown (1890)
"Copy of a minute of a letter of the King of Spain to Don Gaspar de Pereda, ...
To Don Gaspar de Pereda Governor of the Havana. " Don Alonso de Velasco, ..."
4. A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian: With Extracts from His Son's Journal by Julian Charles Young (1871)
"Gaspar Grimani was a man of singular ability and erudition. As a classical scholar
he took no mean rank. He was master of seven modern languages; ..."
5. The Quarterly (1893)
"Gaspar DE PORTOLA; OR THE STORY OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF ALTA CALIFORNIA. ...
The land divisions were respectively under Gaspar de Portola, (at that time ..."
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