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Calvin

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Cal·vin  (klvn), John 1509-1564.
French-born Swiss Protestant theologian who broke with the Roman Catholic Church (1533) and set forth the tenets of his theology, known today as Presbyterianism, in Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536).
Calvin, Melvin 1911-1997.
American chemist. He won a 1961 Nobel Prize for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis.
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Noun1.Calvin - United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)
Melvin Calvin
2.CalvinCalvin - Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
Jean Caulvin, Jean Cauvin, Jean Chauvin, John Calvin


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I made one attempt to hunt up the houses once inhabited by those two disagreeable people, Rousseau and Calvin, but I had no success.
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He induced Calvin Thomas, a poor and youthful printer, to publish a small volume of his verses under the title "Tamerlane and Other Poems.
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by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died
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