Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ussher   Listen
Ussher

noun
1.
Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).  Synonyms: James Usher, James Ussher, Usher.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Ussher" Quotes from Famous Books



... liturgies—, and no instructed theologian could now venture to treat Mr. Newman's distinction as idle. There was in fact nothing new in his distinctions on these two points. They had already been made in two of the preceding Tracts, the reprint of Archbishop Ussher on Prayers for the Dead, and the Catena on the Eucharistie Sacrifice; and in both cases the distinctions were supported by a ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church


Words linked to "Ussher" :   primate, archpriest, high priest, hierarch, prelate, James Usher


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com