Quo´tem (Caleb), a parish clerk or Jack-of-all-trades.—G. Colman, The Review, or The Ways of Windsor.
I resolved like Caleb Quotem, to have a place at the review.—Washington Irving.
R Neither Demosthĕnês nor Aristotle could pronounce the letter r.
R (rogue), vagabonds, etc., who were branded on the left shoulder with this letter.
They ... may be burned with a hot burning iron, of the breadth of a shilling, with a great Roman R on the left shoulder, which letter shall remain as a mark of a rogue.—Pyrnne, Histriomastix, or The Player’s Scourge.
If I escape the halter with the letter R
Printed upon it.
Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, iv. 2 (1629).
Rab´agas, an advocate and editor of a journal called the Carmagnole. At the same office was published another radical paper, called the Crapaud Volant. Rabagas lived in the kingdom of Monaco, and was a demagogue leader of the deepest red; but was won over to the king’s party by the tact of an American lady, who got him an invitation to dine at the palace, and made him chief minister of state. From this moment he became the most strenuous opponent of the “liberal” party.—M. Sardou, Rabagas (1872).
Rabbi Jehosha, wise teacher, whose good words are recorded in James Russell Lowell’s poem “What Rabbi Jehosha Said.”
Rabbi Abron of Trent, a fictitious sage, and most wonderful linguist. “He knew the nature of all manner of herbs, beasts and minerals.”—Reynard the Fox, xii. (1498).
Rabelais (The English). Dean Swift was so called by Voltaire (1667-1745).