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Propagator

noun
1.
Someone who propagates plants (as under glass).
2.
Someone who spreads the news.  Synonym: disseminator.






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... notes, commentaries, or critical collations of the text; and, accordingly, Addison looked upon all of them, except those few who professed themselves followers in the retinue and equipage of the ancients, as creatures of a lower race. Boileau, as a mere imitator and propagator of Horace, he read, and probably little else amongst the French classics. Hence it arose that he took upon himself to speak sneeringly of Tasso. To this, which was a bold act for his timid mind, he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau. Of the elder Italian ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... description of some of the wonderful phenomena shown by Sankara. Probably the learned Orientalist would not be inclined to consider the Biblical account of Christ in the same light. It is not the peculiar privilege of Christianity to have a miracle-worker for its first propagator. In the following observations we shall take such facts as are required ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various



Words linked to "Propagator" :   botanist, phytologist, propagate, communicator, plant scientist



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