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theophilus
/θiːˈɒfɪləs/
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What does theophilus mean?
proper noun
- The addressee of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
- A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]; rare in English.
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/θiːˈɒfɪləs/
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One was Theophilus Johnson and family, of Newcastle; the other Mrs. Oldmore and maid, of High Lodge, Alton.
And Theophilus was of that city also, that our lady saved from our enemy.
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The helmet, which was made by Theophilus, though of iron, was so well wrought and polished, that it was as bright as the most refined silver.
In England Theophilus Gale set himself to prove that not only all the languages, but all the learning of the world, had been drawn from the Hebrew records.
It had been destroyed just two hundred and fifty years before by a rabble of monks, incited by the patriarch Theophilus, who saw in such a vast collection of pagan literature a perpetual insult and menace to religion.