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crowley
/ˈkɹoʊli/
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What does crowley mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- A town in Crowley County, Colorado, United States.
- A city, the parish seat of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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proper noun
- A city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
- Ellipsis of Crowley County.
- Ellipsis of Crowley Lake: a reservoir in Mono County, California, United States.
- The name of a demon, found in several different works of fiction by several different authors. Named after Aleister Crowley, a famous 19th-century occultist.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɹoʊli/
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The first English manufacturer of the article was one Crowley, a Newcastle man; and the Sheffield makers shortly followed his example.
Still later writers, like S. Reinach, Jane Harrison and E. A. Crowley, being mainly occupied with customs of very primitive peoples, like the Pelasgian Greeks or the Australian aborigines, have confined themselves (necessarily) even more to Magic and Witchcraft.
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The Catholics of the town made efforts to intimidate the owner of the place in which the lecture was to be given; the priest of the town, Father O'Connor, preached a sermon furiously denouncing the lecturer; and after the lecture the unfortunate Crowley was surrounded by a mob of men, women and boys, and although he was six feet three in size, he was beaten almost to death.