Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Levites

(2 syl.). In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, means the Dissenting clergy who were expelled by the Act of Conformity.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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