smyth
Speech parts
1. smyth - Noun
2. Smyth - Proper noun
Meaning
smyth (plural smyths)
Obsolete spelling of smith
Smyth (plural Smyths)
A surname originating as an occupation.
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Admiral Smyth says that no family is quite civilized unless it possesses a copy of some encyclopaedia and a telescope.
ASC Ms. A, s.a. 946; Duncan, pp. 23–24; but see also Smyth, pp. 222–223 for an alternative reading.
He rejected the Separatist movement's doctrine of infant baptism ( paedobaptism ). citation citation Shortly thereafter, Smyth left the group, and layman Thomas Helwys took over the leadership, leading the church back to England in 1611.
For the re-reading by Benjamin Hudson, see Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 127–129 and 152–157; Dumville, "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba", p. 77. Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men, pp. 222–223, is typical of the interpretation found in older works.
For an alternative view of all this, see Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men, pp. 215–218.
General Alexander Smyth similarly declared to his troops that when they invaded Canada "You will enter a country that is to become one of the United States.