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Cal·vin

(kăl′vĭn), 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 Calvinism, 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.

Calvin

(ˈkælvɪn)

1. (Biography) John,original name Jean Cauvin, Caulvin, or Chauvin. 1509–64, French theologian: a leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland, establishing the first presbyterian government in Geneva. His theological system is described in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)

2. (Biography) Melvin. 1911–97, US chemist, noted particularly for his research on photosynthesis: Nobel prize for chemistry 1961

Cal•vin

(ˈkæl vɪn)

n.

1. John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin), 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.

2. Melvin, 1911–97, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1961.

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Noun	1.	Calvin - United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-) Melvin Calvin
	2.	Calvin - 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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Calvin here launched out into a political speech in exposition of his views.

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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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Under all these sovereigns (to complete our summary of the movement) the more radical Protestants, Puritans as they came to be called, were active in agitation, undeterred by frequent cruel persecution and largely influenced by the corresponding sects in Germany and by the Presbyterianism established by Calvin in Geneva and later by John Knox in Scotland.

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While residing on the continent of Europe, they had adopted the principles of the most complete and rigorous reformation, as taught and established by Calvin.

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When I rest in perfect humility, when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?

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No recuerdo el momento ni las circunstancias en que descubri Calvin y Hobbes, pero si la imagen que acompana a aquel descubrimiento: en una noche oscura, plagada de estrellas, Calvin clamaba al universo: "