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Definition of Robert Burton from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Robert Burton

/ˌrɒbət ˈbɜːtn/

/ˌrɑːbərt ˈbɜːrtn/

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(1577-1640) an English academic at Oxford University who is best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a study of depression, its history and effects

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