bezonian

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The learned doctor, in the first folio, grapples with the word sub, which, says he, comes from the Greek—so much is clear—but from what Greek, Bezonian?

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James

R.G.W.—What is the origin of the term "Bezonian," which occurs in the Shaksperean drama?

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 by Various

In Shakespeare's phrase, it was—"Under which king, Bezonian? speak or die!"

From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

To choose a side was an absolute necessity,— "Under which king, Bezonian? speak or die!" was the question of the hour, and had to be answered with all its contingent risk.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton