Percival
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A male given name from the Celtic languages.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fremont County, Iowa, United States.
A former hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals.", an alternative explanation, by Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., etc. London, Macmillan and co., 1907.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Farrell portrayed Percival Graves, the Director of Magical Security for the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
By 1939, all Dobbie and Percival were able to wring out of the government was the sum of 60,000 pounds, most of which was spent on building machine-gun emplacements along the southern shore of Singapore island and in Johore.
Both killers have acted out of greed and fell into a state of deep grieving after discovering their misdeeds.sfn Shakespearian scholar Arthur Percival Rossiter names the scene as the most notable of the playwright's written "rituals".
Books by Percival Lowell on the Orient include Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan (1891) and Occult Japan, or the Way of the Gods (1894), the latter from his third and final trip to the region.
A thanksgiving service was held at St Lawrence's Church in Long Buckby and ended with a rendering of " Bye Bye Blackbird " by John Percival and friends.