Alcesʹte (2 syl.).

The hero of Molière’s Misanthrope. Not unlike Shakespeare’s character of Timon.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Albion
Albion
Albion the Giant
Albracca’s Damsel (in Orlando Furioso)
Album
Alcade
Alcaic Verse
Alcantara (Order of)
Alcastus (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Alce
Alceste
Alchemilla
Alchemy (Al-ki-mĕ)
Alcimedon
Alcina
Alcinoo poma dare (to give apples to Alcinŏus)
Alcofribas
Alcuith
Aldabella
Aldebaran
Alderman

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Alceste