Brunonian

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Adjective

Brunonian (comparative more Brunonian, superlative most Brunonian)

1. Of or relating to John Brown (doctor) (1735–1788), Scottish physician who taught that disease was caused by either excessive or inadequate stimulation.

Noun

Brunonian (plural Brunonians)

1. A student of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Brunonian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)