Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Resolute

(The). John Florio, the philologist, tutor to Prince Henry; the Holofernes of Shakespeare. (1545-1625.)

The resolute doctor.
John Baconthorp (-1346). The most resolute doctor. Guillaume Durandus de St. Pourcain (-1332).

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