Definition of Leary

1. Noun. United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996).

Exact synonyms: Tim Leary, Timothy Francis Leary, Timothy Leary
Generic synonyms: Psychologist

Definition of Leary

1. leery [adj LEARIER, LEARIEST] - See also: leery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leary

Leaders of the Opposition
League Championship Series
League of Iroquois
League of Nations
League of Red Cross Societies
Leah
Leahy
Leakey
Leamington
Leander
Leaning Tower
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leanne
Lear
Lear complex
Leary
Leatherhead
Lebanese
Lebanese Hizballah
Lebanese Republic
Lebanese loop
Lebanese monetary unit
Lebanese pound
Lebanon
Lebensraum
Lebenswelt
Lebenswelten
Leber's idiopathic stellate neuroretinitis
Leber's idiopathic stellate retinopathy

Literary usage of Leary

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

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"In 1782 O'leary publicly announced his support of the Irish national volunteer ... 1784 : ' O'leary has been talked to by Mr. Nepean, and he is willing to ..."

2. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1869)
"It was singular, but it was fact, that even before Father O'leary opened his lips, a stranger would say, " That is an Irishman," and at the same time guess ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"Proceedings on the Trial of JOHN leary for High Treason, before the Court holden under a ... JOHN leary was arraigned upon the following indictment, ..."

4. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"ELLEN O'leary THE Fenian movement differed from that of 1848 in being ... Miss O'leary was born in Tipperary, 1831, and from about her twentieth year was a ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"James D. leary died intestate in April, 1902, leaving him surviving a widow, ... The widow, Mary C. leary, was soon appointed sole administratrix of his ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the by Charles Hood Mills (1918)
"After the death of James D. leary this plaintiff and his brother, George leary, and his sister, Marie C. leary, assigned, transferred and set over unto Mary ..."

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