Milton

[ mil-tn ]

/ ˈmɪl tn /

noun

John,1608–74, English poet.

a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.

a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

a male given name: a family name taken from a placename meaning “mill town.”

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Second,” said Sen. Paul, “is the Milton Friedman efficiency argument.

My Coffee Klatch With Rand Paul |P. J. O’Rourke |September 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Locke mentioned it in his Second Treatise on Government; Milton dreamed of it in Paradise Lost.

Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and Savvy |Michael Weiss |February 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Milton Ager and Jack Yellow song signified the end of a dark era in American history...and the start of something new.

Marc Jacobs is on Cloud Nine at New York Fashion Week |Erin Cunningham |February 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
At one point, Powers invokes Milton Babbitt's 1958 essay "Who Cares If You Listen?"

The Bioterrorist Who Loved Mahler |Ron Hogan |January 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Moseley sent Milton to William Marshall, a.k.a. engraver to the stars.

A Picture Says It All Or Does It? Judging an Author by Their Photo |Jennifer Miller |December 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
No one has done more than Milton to justify this praise, or to make manifest what may be effected by this marriage of words.

English Past and Present |Richard Chevenix Trench
She could wait to tell him all about the catastrophe when he returned to Milton.

The Corner House Girls' Odd Find |Grace Brooks Hill
Do come early in the day, by sun-light, that you may see my Milton.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb |Charles Lamb
He got a volume of Milton last night, and spoke of it with warmth.

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters |William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
But we must have had Mr. Horsfall, and he does not stay in Milton long.

North and South |Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for milton

Milton

/ (ˈmɪltən) /

noun

John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1632), the masque Comus (1634), and the elegy Lycidas (1637), show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica (1644), which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), and Paradise Regained (1671) and the verse drama Samson Agonistes (1671)

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