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St. Anselm   Listen
St. Anselm

noun
1.
An Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God.  Synonyms: Anselm, Saint Anselm.





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"St. Anselm" Quotes from Famous Books



... the boy's aspiring nose to the grindstone of grammatical minutiae, began about the time of Sir Mowbray's letter to prophesy very smooth things indeed to his mother as to his future success at college, the possibility of his getting the famous St. Anselm's ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... as primary qualities are concerned, then, Locke is as thoroughgoing a realist as St. Anselm. In Berkeley, on the other hand, we have as complete a representative of the nominalists and conceptualists—an intellectual descendant of Roscellinus and of Abelard. And by a curious irony of fate, it is the nominalist who is, this time, the champion of ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley


Words linked to "St. Anselm" :   archbishop, saint, Anselm


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