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Clarendon
(redirected from Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of)

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Clar·en·don  (klrn-dn), First Earl of
See Edward Hyde.

clarendon [ˈklærəndən]
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a style of boldface roman type
[named after the Clarendon Press at Oxford University]

Clarendon [ˈklærəndən]
n
(Placename) a village near Salisbury in S England: site of a council held by Henry II in 1164 that produced a code of laws (the Constitutions of Clarendon) defining relations between church and state

Clarendon2
n
(Biographies / Clarendon, 1st Earl of (1609-1674) M, English, POLITICS: statesman, HISTORY: historian) 1st Earl of, title of Edward Hyde. 1609-74, English statesman and historian; chief adviser to Charles II (1660-67); author of


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