free-thinker
81freethinker — freethinking, adj., n. /free thing keuhr/, n. a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, esp. a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief. [1685 95; FREE + THINKER] Syn. skeptic …
82Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim — born Jan. 22, 1729, Kamenz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony died Feb. 15, 1781, Braunschweig, Brunswick German playwright and critic. After writing several light comedies, he became a theatre critic in Berlin in 1748. His play Miss Sara Sampson (1755) was… …
83Vienna — • The capital of Austria Hungary, the residence of the emperor, and the seat of a Latin archbishopric Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vienna Vienna …
84Adolph Douai — (1819 1888). Karl Daniel Adolph Douai (1819 1888), known to his peers as Adolph, was a German Texan teacher as well as a socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor. He is remembered as one of the leading American Marxists of the 19th Century as… …
85Mario Bernasconi — (Pazzallo, February 13, 1899 Viganello, March 19, 1963) was a Swiss Italian sculptor. Art critics and historians of the twentieth century wrote: Mario and The young mother Mario Bernasconi is a fine and original artist who has worked hard. The… …
86Шариати, Али — Доктор Али Шариати Али Шариати (перс. علی شريعتی; 23 ноября, 1933  19 июня 1977)  иранский левый социолог и революционер, один из наиболее известных и влиятельных социологов религии. Известен как один из самых оригинальных и… …
87libre — [ libr ] adj. • 1339; lat. liber ♦ Qui jouit de la liberté, de certaines libertés. I ♦ (Sens étroit) 1 ♦ (Opposé à esclave, serf) Qui n appartient pas à un maître. ⇒ 2. franc; affranchi. Travailleurs libres. 2 ♦ (1596) Opposé à captif, prisonnier …
88PAINE, THOMAS — a notorious free thinker and democrat, born in Thetford; emigrated to America, contributed, as he boasted, by his pamphlet Common Sense, to free America, by rousing it to emancipate itself from the mother country; wrote the Rights of Man… …
89BRADLAUGH, Charles — (1833 1891) Free thinker and follower of Thomas PAINE. Made a name for himself as a lecturer under the title of Iconoclast. Became President of the London SECULAR SOCIETY (1858 1890). From 1860 he ran the National Reformer in defense of free… …
90neutral — adj 1.(of a person or government) non participating, uninvolved, disengaged, noninterven tional; nonfighting, noncombatant, noncombative, pacifistic, peaceable, peaceful. 2. impartial, nonpartisan, nonparty, unbiased, unprejudiced, without… …
