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Nostradamus
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Nos·tra·da·mus  (nstr-dms, -dä-, nstr-) Originally Michel de Notredame. 1503-1566.
French physician and astrologer who wrote Centuries (1555), a book of prophecies.
Nostradamus [ˌnɒstrəˈdɑːməs]
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(Biographies / Nostradamus (1503-1566) M, French, MEDICINE: physician, MISC: astrologer) Latinized name of Michel de Notredame. 1503-66, French physician and astrologer; author of a book of prophecies in rhymed quatrains, Centuries (1555)
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Noun1.Nostradamus - French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566)Nostradamus - French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566)
Michel de Notredame
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Some are perhaps to be expected--Innocent Gentillet, author of the highly influential Antimachiavel, or the untiring Michel de Montaigne--but others might come as a surprise, such as the doctor and astrologer Michel Nostradamus, who in the preface to his collection of prophecies (1555) shamelessly and silently plagiarized word-for-word Savonarola's introduction to the Compendio di rivelazioni.
Savonarola in Francia: Circolazione di un'eredita politico-religiosa ... by Eisenbichler, Konrad / Renaissance Quarterly
I knew that ''viewing'' time through the Philosopher''s Stone had given many people like the priestly Michel Nostradamus the insight to his confusing quatrains.
Chichen Itza Discoveries by Robert Bruce Baird / Travel, recreation and leisure community
 
 
 
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