books, by Fénelon (1699). The first six books contain the story of the
hero’s adventures, told to Calypso, as Ænēas told the story of the
burning of Troy and his travels from Troy to Carthage to Queen Dido.
Télémaque says to the goddess that he started with Mentor from Ithăca,
in search of his father, who had been absent from home for nearly twenty
years. He first went to inquire of old Nestor if he could give him any
information on the subject, and Nestor told him to go to Sparta, and
have an interview with Menelāus. On leaving Lacedæmonia, he was
shipwrecked off the coast of Sicily, but was kindly treated by King
Acestês, who furnished him with a ship to take him home (bk. i.). This
ship fell into the hands of some Egyptians; he was parted from Mentor,
and sent to feed sheep in Egypt. King Sesostris, conceiving a high
opinion of the young man, would have sent him home, but died, and
Télémaque was incarcerated by his successor in a dungeon overlooking the
sea (bk. ii.). After a time he was released and sent to Tyre. Here he
would have been put to death by Pygmalīon, had he not been rescued by
Astarbê, the king’s mistress (bk. iii.). Again he embarked, reached
Cyprus, and sailed thence to Crete. In this passage he saw Amphitrītê,
the wife of the sea-god, in her magnificent chariot, drawn by sea-horses
(bk. iv.). On landing in Crete, he was told the tale of King Idomĕneus
(4 _syl._), who made a vow if he reached home in safety, after the siege
of Troy, that he would offer in sacrifice the first living being that
came to meet him. This happened to be his own son; but when Idomeneus
proceeded to do according to his vow, the Cretans were so indignant that
they drove him from the island. Being without a ruler, the islanders
asked Télémaque to be their king (bk. v.). This he declined, but Mentor
advised the Cretans to place the reigns of government in the hands of
Aristodēmus. On leaving Crete, the vessel was again wrecked, and
Télémaque, with Mentor, was cast on the island of Calypso (bk vi.). Here
the narrative closes, and the rest of the story gives the several
adventures of Télémaque from this point till he reaches Ithaca. Calypso,
having fallen in love with the young prince, tried to detain him in her
island, and even burnt the ship which Mentor had built to carry them
home; but Mentor determined to quit the island, threw Télémaque from a
crag into the sea, and then leaped in after him. They had now to swim
for their lives, and they kept themselves afloat till they were picked
up by some Tyrians (bk. vii.). The captain of the ship was very friendly
to Télémaque, and promised to take him with his friend to Ithaca, but
the pilot by mistake landed them on Salentum (bk. ix.). Here Télémaque,
being told that his father was dead, determined to go down to the
infernal regions to see him (bk. xviii.). In Hadês he was informed that
Ulysses was still alive (bk. xix.). So he returned to the upper earth
(bk. xxii.), embarked again, and this time reached Ithaca, where he
found his father, and Mentor left him.
=Tell= (_William_), a famous chief of the confederates of the forest
cantons of Switzerland, and son-in-law of Walter Furst. Having refused
to salute the Austrian cap which Gessler, the Austrian governor, had set
up in the market-place of Altorf, he was condemned to shoot an apple
from the head of his own son. He succeeded in this perilous task, but
letting fall a concealed arrow, was asked by Gessler with what object he
had secreted it. “To kill thee, tyrant,” he replied, “if I had failed.”
The governor now ordered him to be carried in chains across the Lake
Lucerne to Küssnacht Castle, “there to be devoured alive by reptiles;”
but, a violent storm having arisen on the lake, he was unchained, that
he might take the helm. Gessler was on board, and when the vessel neared
the castle, Tell leapt ashore, gave the boat a push into the lake, and
shot the governor. After this he liberated his country from the Austrian
yoke (1307).
This story of William Tell is told of a host of persons. For example:
Egil, the brother of Wayland Smith, was commanded by King Nidung to
shoot an apple from the head of his son. Egil, like Tell, took two
arrows, and being asked why, replied, as Tell did to Gessler, “To shoot
thee, tyrant, if I fail in my task.”
A similar story is told of Olaf and Eindridi, in Norway. King Olaf dared
Eindridi to a trial of skill. An apple was placed on the head of
Eindridi’s son, and the king shooting at it grazed the boy’s head, but
the father carried off the apple clean. Eindridi had concealed an arrow
to aim at the king, if the boy had been injured.
Another Norse tale is told of Hemingr and Harald, son of Sigurd (1066).
After various trials of skill, Harald told Hemingr to shoot a nut from
the head of Bjorn, his younger brother. In this he succeeded, not with
an arrow, but with a spear.
A similar tale is related of Geyti, son of Aslak, and the same Harald.
The place of trial was the Faroe Isles. In this case also it was a nut
placed on the head of Bjorn.
Saxo Grammatĭcus tells nearly the same story of Toki, the Danish hero,
and Harald; but in this trial of skill Toki killed Harald.--_Danorum
Regum Heroumque Historia_ (1514).
Reginald Scot says that Puncher shot a penny placed on his son’s head,
but made ready another arrow to slay the Duke Remgrave who had set him
the task (1584).
⁂ It is said of Domitian, the Roman emperor, that if a boy held up his
hands with the fingers spread, he could shoot eight arrows in succession
through the spaces without touching one of the fingers.
William of Cloudesley, to show the king his skill in shooting, bound his
eldest son to a stake, put an apple on his head, and, at the distance of
300 feet, cleft the apple in two without touching the boy.
I have a son is seven years old,
He is to me full dear,
I will hym tye to a stake ...
And lay an apple upon his head,
And go six score paces hym fro,
And I myselfe with a broad arrow
Will cleve the apple in two.
Percy, _Reliques_.
Similar feats of skill are told of Adam Bell and Clym of the Clough.
In Altorf market-place, the spot is still pointed out where Tell shot
the apple from his son’s head, and a plaster statue stands where the
patriot stood when he took his aim.
See Roman fire in Hampden’s bosom swell,
And fate and freedom in the shaft of Tell.
Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1799).
⁂ The legend of William Tell has furnished Florian with the subject of a
novel in French (1788); A. M. Lemierre with his tragedy of _Guillaume
Tell_ (1766); Schiller with a tragedy in German, _Wilhelm Tell_ (1804);
Knowles with a tragedy in English, _William Tell_ (1840); and Rossini
with the opera of _Guglielmo Tell_, in Italian (1829).
=Tellus’s Son,= Antæos, son of Posei´don and Gê, a giant wrestler of
Lib´ya, whose strength was irresistible so long as he touched his mother
(_earth_). Herculês, knowing this, lifted him into the air, and crushed
him to death. Near the town of Tingis, in Mauritania, is a hill in the
shape of a man, called “The Hill of Antæos,” and said to be his tomb.
So some have feigned that Tellus’ giant son
Drew many new-born lives from his dead mother;
Another rose as soon as one was done,
And twenty lost, yet still remained another.
For when he fell and kissed the barren heath,
His parent straight inspired successive breath,
And tho’ herself was dead, yet ransomed him from death.
Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, ix. (1633).
⁂ Similarly, Bernardo del Carpio lifted Orlando in his arms, and
squeezed him to death, because his body was proof against any instrument
of war.
=Temliha,= king of the serpents, in the island of serpents. King Temliha
was “a small yellow serpent, of a glowing color,” with the gift of human
speech, like the serpent which tempted Eve.--Comte de Caylus, _Oriental
Tales_ (“History of Aboutaleb,” 1743).
=Tem´ora=, the longest of the Ossianic prose-poems, in eight books. The
subject is the dethronement of the kings of Connaught, and consolidation
of the two Irish kingdoms in that of Ulster. It must be borne in mind
that there were two colonies in Ireland--one the Fir-bolg, or British
Belgæ, settled in the south, whose king was called the “lord of Atha,”
from Atha, in Connaught, the seat of government; and the other the Cael,
from Caledonia, in Scotland, whose seat of government was Temŏra, in
Ulster. When Crothar was “lord of Atha,” he wished to unite the two
kingdoms, and, with this view, carried off Conlāma, only child of the
rival king, and married her. The Caledonians of Scotland interfered, and
Conar, the brother of Fingal, was sent with an army against the usurper,
conquered him, reduced the south to a tributary state, and restored, in
his own person, the kingdom of Ulster. After a few years, Cormac II. (a
minor) became king of Ulster and over-lord of Connaught. The Fir-bolg,
seizing this opportunity of revolt, Cairbar, “lord of Atha,” threw off
his subjection, and murdered the young king in his palace of Temora.
Fingal interfered in behalf of the Caels; but no sooner had he landed in
Ireland than Cairbar invited Oscar (Fingal’s grandson) to a banquet,
picked a quarrel with him in the banquet hall, and both fell dead, each
by the other’s hand. On the death of Cairbar, Faldath became leader of
the Fir-bolg, but was slain by Fillan, son of Fingal. Fillan, in turn,
was slain by Clathmor, brother of Cairbar. Fingal now took the lead of
his army in person, slew Clathmor, reduced the Fir-bolg to submission,
and placed on the throne Ferad-Artho, the only surviving descendant of
Conar (first of the kings of Ulster of Caledonian race).
=Tempest= (_The_), a drama by Shakespeare (1609). Prospero and his
daughter, Miranda, lived on a desert island, enchanted by Sycŏrax, who
was dead. The only other inhabitants were Caliban, the son of Sycorax, a
strange, misshapen thing, like a gorilla, and Ariel, a sprite, who had
been imprisoned by Sycorax for twelve years in the rift of a pine tree,
from which Prospero set him free. One day Prospero saw a ship off the
island, and raised a tempest to wreck it. By this means his brother,
Anthonio, Prince Ferdinand, and the king of Naples, were brought to the
island. Now it must be known that Prospero was once duke of Milan; but
his brother, Anthonio, aided by the king of Naples, had usurped the
throne, and set Prospero and Miranda adrift in a small boat, which was
wind-driven to this desert island. Ferdinand (son of the king of Naples)
and Miranda fell in love with each other, and the rest of the
shipwrecked party being brought together by Ariel, Anthonio asked
forgiveness of his brother, Prospero was restored to his dukedom, and
the whole party was conducted by Ariel with prosperous breezes back to
Italy.
⁂ Dryden has a drama called _The Tempest_ (1668).
_Tempest_ (_The_), a sobriquet of Marshal Junot, one of Napoleon’s
generals, noted for his martial impetuosity (1771-1813).
_Tempest_ (_The Hon. Mr._), late governor of Senegambia. He was the son
of Lord Hurricane; impatient, irascible, headstrong, and poor. He says
he never was in smooth water since he was born, for being only a younger
son, his father gave him no education, taught him nothing, and then
buffeted him for being a dunce.
First I was turned into the army; there I got broken bones and empty
pockets. Then I was banished to the coast of Africa, to govern the
savages of Senegambia.--Act ii. 1.
_Miss Emily_ [_Tempest_], daughter of Mr. Tempest; a great wit of very
lively parts. Her father wanted her to marry Sir David Daw, a great lout
with plenty of money, but she had fixed her heart on Captain Henry
Woodville, the son of a man ruined by gambling. The prospect was not
cheering, but Penruddock came forward, and by making them rich, made
them happy.--Cumberland, _The Wheel of Fortune_ (1779).
_Tempest_ (_Lady Betty_), a lady with beauty, fortune and family, whose
head was turned by plays and romances. She fancied a plain man no better
than a fool, and resolved to marry only a gay, fashionable, dashing
young spark. Having rejected many offers because the suitor did not come
up to her ideal, she was gradually left in the cold. Now she is company
only for aunts and cousins, in the ballroom is a wallflower, and in
society generally esteemed a piece of fashionable lumber.--Goldsmith, _A
Citizen of the World_, xxviii. (1759).
=Templars= (_Knight_), an order of knighthood founded in 1118, for the
defence of the Temple in Jerusalem. Dissolved in 1312, and their lands,
etc., transferred to the Hospitallers. They wore a _white_ robe with a
_red_ cross; but the Hospitallers a _black_ robe with a _white_ cross.
=Temple= (_The_). When Solomon was dying, he prayed that he might remain
standing till the Temple was completely finished. The prayer was
granted, and he remained leaning on his staff till the Temple was
finished, when the staff was gnawed through by a worm, and the dead body
fell to the ground.--_Talmud Legend._
_Temple_ (_Launcelot_), the nom de plume of John Armstrong, the poet
(1709-1779).
_Temple_ (_Elizabeth_), daughter of Judge Temple and the heroine of two
stirring adventures, the first being an escape, by the intervention of
Leather-Stocking, from a panther, the second from a forest-fire, the
hunter again coming to her aid. She marries Oliver Effingham, whom she
has known as Oliver Edwards.--J. F. Cooper, The Pioneers (1822).
=Templeton= (_Laurence_), the pseudonym under which Sir W. Scott
published Ivanhoe. The preface is initialed L. T., and the dedication is
to the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust (1820).
=Tempy= (_Miss_), New England spinster, who kept her young, loving heart
and through it, her young face, after all contemporaries were old. She
had but one old quince-tree, but she tended it carefully every spring,
“and would look at it so pleasant, and kind of _expect_ the thorny old
thing into blooming.”
“She was just the same with folks!”--Sarah Orne Jewett, _Miss Tempy’s
Watchers_ (1888).
=Tenantius=, the father of Cymbeline, and nephew of Cassibelan. He was
the younger son of Lud, king of the southern part of Britain. On the
death of Lud, his younger brother, Cassibelan, succeeded, and on the
death of Cassibelan, the crown came to Tenantius, who refused to pay the
tribute to Rome exacted from Cassibelan, on his defeat by Julius Cæsar.
=Tendo Achillis=, a strong sinew running along the heel to the calf of
the leg. So called because it was the only vulnerable part of Achillês.
The tale is that Thetis held him by the heel when she dipped him in the
Styx, in consequence of which the water did not wet the child’s heel.
The story is post-Homeric.
=Teniers= (_The English_), George Morland (1763-1804).
_Teniers_ (_The Scottish_), Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).
=Teniers of Comedy= (_The_), Florent Carton Dancourt (1661-1726).
=Tennessee’s Partner=, camp-name for associate and co-worker with a
dare-devil who runs away with the Partner’s wife, returns to camp
without her, and is taken back amicably by the Partner. When Tennessee
is tried for highway robbery the Partner offers “$1700 in coarse gold
and a watch”--his whole fortune--to buy him off. The offer is refused;
Tennessee is hanged. The Partner waits composedly, a little way from the
gallows, with a mule and a cart. “When the gentlemen are done with the
‘diseased,’ he will take him.” “Ef thar is any present”--in his simple,
serious way--“as would like to jine in the fun’l, they ken come.”--Bret
Harte, _Tennessee’s Partner_ (1871).
=Tennis-Ball of Fortune= (_The_), Pertinax, the Roman emperor. He was
first a charcoal-seller, then a schoolmaster, then a soldier, then an
emperor; but within three months he was dethroned and murdered (126-193;
reigned from January 1 to March 28, A.D. 193).
=Tent= (_Prince Ahmed’s_), a tent given to him by the fairy, Pari-Banou.
It would cover a whole army, yet would fold up into so small a compass
that it might be carried in one’s pocket.--_Arabian Nights._
Solomon’s carpet of green silk was large enough to afford standing room
for a whole army, but might be carried about like a pocket-handkerchief.
The ship, _Skidbladnir_, would hold all the deities of Valhalla, but
might be folded up like a roll of parchment.
Bayard, the horse of the four sons of Aymon, grew larger or smaller, as
one or more of the four sons mounted on its back.--Villeneuve, _Les
Quatre Filz Aymon_.
=Tents= (_The father of such as dwell in_), Jabal.--_Gen._ iv. 20.
=Terebin´thus=, Ephes-dammim, or Pasdammim.--_1 Sam._ xvii. 1.
O, thou that ’gainst Goliath’s impious head
The youthful arms in Terebinthus sped,
When the proud foe, who scoffed at Israel’s band,
Fell by the weapon of a stripling hand.
Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, viii. (1575).
=Terence of England= (_The_), Richard Cumberland (1732-1811).
Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts;
The Terence of England, the mender of hearts;
A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are ...
Say ... wherefore his characters, thus without fault, ...
Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf,
He grew lazy at last, and drew men from himself.
Goldsmith, _Retaliation_ (1774).
=Tere´sa=, the female associate of Ferdinand, Count Fathom.--Smollett,
_Count Fathom_ (1754).
=Teresa d´Acunha=, lady’s-maid of Joceline, countess of Glenallan.--Sir
W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.).
=Teresa Panza=, wife of Sancho Panza. In pt. I. i. 7 she is called Dame
Juana [Gutierez]. In pt. II. iv. 7 she is called Maria [Gutierez]. In
pt. I. iv. she is called Joan.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605-15).
=Tereus= [_Te´.ruse_], king of Daulis, and the husband of Procnê.
Wishing afterwards to marry Philomēla, her sister, he told her that
Procnê was dead. He lived with his new wife for a time, and then cut out
her tongue, lest she should expose his falsehood to Procnê; but it was
of no use, for Philomela made known her story in the embroidery of a
peplus. Tereus rushed after Procnê with an axe, but the whole party were
metamorphosed into birds. Tereus was changed into a hoopoo (some say a
lapwing, and others an owl), Procnê into a swallow, and Philomela into a
nightingale.
And the mute Silence hist along,
’Less Philomel will deign a song
In her sweetest saddest plight,
Smoothing the rugged brow of night.
* * * * * * * *
Sweet bird that shunn’st the noise of folly
Most musical, most melancholy.
Milton, _Il Penseroso_.
In _Titus Andronĭcus_ the sons of Tamŏra, after defiling Lavinia, cut
off her tongue and hands, but she wrote her tale in the sand with a
staff held in her mouth and guided by her arms.
Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,
And in a tedious sampler sewed her mind.
But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;
A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,
And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,
That could have better sewed than Philomel.
Act ii. sc. 4 (1593).
=Ter´il= (_Sir Walter_). The king exacts an oath from Sir Walter to send
his bride, Cælestina, to court on her wedding night. Her father, to save
her honor, gives her a mixture supposed to be poison, but in reality
only a sleeping draught, from which she awakes in due time, to the
amusement of the king and delight of her husband.--Thomas Dekker,
_Satiromastix_ (1602).
=Termagant=, an imaginary being, supposed by the crusaders to be a
Mohammedan deity. In the _Old Moralities_ the degree of rant was the
measure of the wickedness of the character portrayed; so Pontius Pilate,
Herod, Judas Iscariot, Termagant, the tyrant, Sin, and so on, were all
ranting parts.
I would have such a fellow whipped for o’er-doing Termagant; it
out-Herods Herod, pray you, avoid it.--Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, act iii.
sc. 2 (1596).
_Termagant_, the maid of Harriet Quidnunc. She uses most wonderful
words, as _paradropsical_ for “rhapsodical,” _perjured_ for “assured,”
_phisology_ for “philology,” _curacy_ for “accuracy,” _fignification_
for “signification,” importation for “import,” _anecdote_ for
“antidote,” _infirmaries_ for “infirmities,” _intimidate_ for
“intimate.”--Murphy, _The Upholsterer_ (1758).
=Ter´meros=, a robber of Peloponnesos, who killed his victims by
cracking their skulls against his own.
=Termosi´ris=, a priest of Apollo, in Egypt; wise, prudent, cheerful,
and courteous.--Fénelon, _Télémaque_, ii. (1700).
=Ternotte=, one of the domestics of Lady Eveline Berenger, “the
betrothed.”--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).
=Terpin= (_Sir_), a king who fell into the power of Radigund, queen of
the Amăzons. Refusing to dress in female attire, as she commanded, and
to sew, card wool, spin, and do house work, he was doomed to be gibbeted
by her women. Sir Artegal undertook his cause, and a fight ensued, which
lasted all day. When daylight closed, Radigund proposed to defer the
contest till the following day, to which Sir Artegal acceeded. Next day
the knight was victorious; but when he saw the brave queen bleeding to
death, he took pity on her, and, throwing his sword aside, ran to succor
her. Up started Radigund as he approached, attacked him like a fury,
and, as he had no sword, he was, of course, obliged to yield. So the
contest was decided against him, and Sir Terpin was hung by women, as
Radigund had commanded.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. 5 (1596).
=Terpischore= [_Terp.sic´o.re._], the Muse of dancing.--_Greek Fable._
=Terrible= (_The_), Ivan IV. or II. of Russia (1529, 1533-1584).
=Terror of France= (_The_), John Talbot, first earl of Shrewsbury
(1373-1453).
Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad,
That with his name the mothers still their babes?
Shakespeare, _1 Henry VI._ act ii. sc. 3 (1589).
=Terror of the World= (_The_), Attĭla, king of the Huns (*-453).
=Terry Alts=, a lawless body of rebels, who sprang up in Clare (Ireland)
after the union.
The “Thrashers” of Connaught, the “Carders,” the followers of “Captain
Right,” in the eighteenth century, those of “Captain Rock,” who appeared
in 1822, and the “Fenians,” in 1865, were similar disturbers of the
peace.
=Tesoretto= (“The Little Treasure,”) an Italian poem by Brunetto Latini,
preceptor of Dantê (1285). The poem is one of the landmarks in the
development of the Italian language. The poet says he was returning from
an embassy to the king of Spain, and met a scholar who told him of the
overthrow of the Guelfi. Struck with grief, he lost his road, and
wandered into a wood, where Dame Nature accosted him, and disclosed to
him the secrets of her works. On he wandered till he came to a vast
plain, inhabited by Virtue and her four daughters, together with
Courtesy, Bounty, Loyalty, and Prowess. Leaving this, he came to a
fertile valley, which was for ever shifting its appearance, from round
to square, from light to darkness. This was the valley of Queen
Pleasure, who was attended by Love, Hope, Fear, and Desire. Ovid comes
to the poet at length and tells him how to effect his escape. Dantê
meets Brunetto Latini in Hell, and praises his poem.
=Tes´sira=, one of the leaders of the Moorish host.--Ariosto, _Orlando
Furioso_ (1516).
=Tests of Chastity.= Alasnam’s mirror; the brawn or boar’s head;
drinking-horns (see ARTHUR’S DRINKING-HORN; SIR CRADOCK AND THE
DRINKING-HORN); Florimel’s girdle; grotto of Ephesus; the test mantle;
oath on St. Antony’s arm was held in supreme reverence because it was
believed that whoever took the oath falsely would be consumed by “St.
Antony’s fire” within the current year; the trial of the sieve.
=Tests of Fidelity.= Canacê’s mirror; Gondibert’s emerald ring. The
corsned or “cursed mouthful,” a piece of bread consecrated by exorcism,
and given to the “suspect” to swallow as a test. “May this morsel choke
me if I am guilty,” said the defendant, “but turn to wholesome
nourishment if I am innocent.” Ordeals, combats between plaintiff and
defendant, or their representatives.
=Tête Bottée=, Philippe de Commines [_Cum.min_], politician and
historian (1445-1509).
You, Sir Philippe des Comines [_sic_] were at a
hunting-match with the duke, your master; and
when he alighted, after the chase, he required
your services in drawing off his boots. Reading
in your looks some natural resentment, ...
he ordered you to sit down in turn, and rendered
you the same office ... but ... no
sooner had he plucked one of your boots off
than he brutally beat it about your head ...
and his privileged fool, Le Gloirieux, ... gave
you the name of _Tête Bottée_.--Sir W. Scott,
_Quentin Durward_, xxx. (time, Edward IV.).
=Te´thys=, daughter of Heaven and Earth, the wife of Ocean and mother of
the river-gods. In poetry it means the sea generally.
The golden sun above the watery bed
Of hoary Têthys raised his beamy head.
Hoole’s _Ariosto_, viii.
By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace [_trident_],
And Têthy’s grave majestic pace.
Milton, _Comus_, 870 (1634).
=Tetrachor´don=, the title of one of Milton’s books about marriage and
divorce. The word means “the four strings;” and refers to the four chief
places in Scripture which bear on the subject of marriage.
A book was writ of late called _Tetrachordon_.
Milton, _Sonnet_, x.
=Teucer=, son of Telămon of Salămis, and brother of Telamon Ajax. He was
the best archer of all the Greeks at the siege of Troy.
I may, like a second Teucer, discharge my shafts from behind the
shield of my ally.--Sir W. Scott.
=Teufelsdroeckh= (_Herr_), pronounce _Toi.felz.drurk_; an eccentric
German professor and philosopher. The object of this satire is to expose
all sorts of shams, social as well as intellectual.--Carlyle, _Sartor
Resartus_ (1849).