Linacre

[ lin-uh-ker ]

/ ˈlɪn ə kər /

Thomas,1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.

Example sentences from the Web for linacre

This professorship was an expansion of the natural science lectureships founded by the great Linacre.

Cambridge |Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
Empirical science at Cambridge dates from Linacre and Caius.

Cambridge |Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
Linacre, perhaps even more than his fellows, was cast in the mould that Humphrey would have approved.

Humphrey Duke of Gloucester |K.H. Vickers
One of their number, Linacre, who was also a prebendary of Westminster, busied himself with editions of certain writings of Galen.

A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) |Charles Creighton

What can be more searching, deep, and refined than the judgement of Linacre?

History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) |John Richard Green

Linacre

/ (ˈlɪnəkə) /

Thomas. ?1460–1524, English humanist and physician: founded the Royal College of Physicians (1518)