Culpeper

[ kuhl-pep-er ]

/ ˈkʌlˌpɛp ər /

noun

Thomas2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway,1635–89, English colonial governor of Virginia 1680–83.

Example sentences from the Web for culpeper

Mrs. Culpeper had relapsed into her tone of habitual martyrdom.

One Man in His Time |Ellen Glasgow
Mr. Culpeper wrapped his cloak round him and sat still while the children stared at the Great Bear on the hill-top.

Rewards and Fairies |Rudyard Kipling
Meade had not shown any weakness since moving from Culpeper, nor once intimated doubt as to the successful issue of the campaign.

Recollections of the Civil War |Charles A. Dana
Dunmore also had heard of the approach of the Culpeper men, and resolved to keep them at a distance from Norfolk.

Rodney, the Ranger |John V. Lane

But Culpeper, interested only in securing money from the Burgesses, failed to put this instruction into operation.

Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 |Thomas J. Wertenbaker

British Dictionary definitions for culpeper

Culpeper

/ (ˈkʌlpɛpə) /

noun

Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism

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