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melchior
/meɪlˈtʃiɚ/
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What does melchior mean?
noun
- A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 18 liters, equivalent to 24 standard bottles.
proper noun
- One of the Magi according to medieval Christian legend.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
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IPA pronunciation
/meɪlˈtʃiɚ/
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The Reverend Magister Sigismund Kirchner, The Reverend Wolfgang Kiswetter, The Reverend Melchior Weitmann The Reverend John Thall.
Rudolph: I kept those walls for two months or more, When they feared the riders of Melchior!
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The most eminent, both for uncompromising zeal and for worldly position, of those who had attacked Lessing, was Melchior Goetze, "pastor primarius" at the Hamburg Cathedral.
At first they were few and feeble; and two years later Melchior Nunez, Provincial of the Jesuits in the Portuguese dominions, with all the means at his command, and a correspondence extending throughout Eastern Asia, had been able to hear of but three.
‘Friar Melchior of Guelama states that he heard asserted of two Gitános what was never yet heard of any barbarous nation, namely, that they exchanged their wives, and that as one was more comely looking than the other, he who took the handsome woman gave a certain sum of money to him who took the ugly one.