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- noun Plural form of
coryphaeus .
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"Varangians" very early at Constantinople, etc. etc., let us come to the two great literary facts -- the chorus of fairy tale-telling proper at the end of the century (of which the coryphaei are the lady already mentioned and Perrault), and the epoch-making translation of _The
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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There is a close parallel, it may be observed, between these two coryphaei of the Roman College, and Boscovich may, without hesitation, be considered the intellectual forerunner of Secchi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Reynolds said in a letter of January 7, 1850: "The fact is, there is a large body of men in our Church who have no knowledge of her history, no sympathy with her doctrines, no idea of her true character, and whose conception of the Church is that of a kind of mongrel Methodistic Presbyterianism, and of this party Drs.S. S. S.hmucker and Kurtz are the coryphaei."
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The coryphaei of the General Synod, in order to impart to the
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