NICHOLAS UDALL
\nˈɪkələs jˈuːdɔːl], \nˈɪkələs jˈuːdɔːl], \n_ˈɪ_k_ə_l_ə_s j_ˈuː_d_ɔː_l]\
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An English dramatist; born in Hampshire, in 1505; died in 1556. He was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and master of Eton. His school-books were very popular; but he is chiefly remembered as the author of "Ralph Royster Doyster", the first regular comedy in the English language, which was certainly in existence as early as 1551. The best edition is one prepared for the Shakspere Society, by William Durrant Cooper (1847).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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tinctura quininae ammoniata
- A preparation made by dissolving quinin sulphate in alcohol [Br. Ph.].