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British-American psychological anthropologist (1904–1980)
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist
Gregory_Bateson
American anthropologist (1939–2021)
Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist. The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Bateson
Mary_Catherine_Bateson
Religious concept
conscious/unconscious and anima/animus. In his Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson adopts and extends Jung's distinction between pleroma (the non-living
Pleroma
Psychological dilemma
no matter how they respond. Double bind theory was first stated by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s, in a theory on the origins of schizophrenia
Double_bind
American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978)
and men, girls and boys alongside one another. During fieldwork with Gregory Bateson in Bali in the 1930s, she used still and motion photography extensively
Margaret_Mead
1972 book by Gregory Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology
Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind
English biologist (1861–1926)
the marriage. Their son was Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and cyberneticist who was married to Margaret Mead. Bateson has been described as a "very
William_Bateson
American jazz musician
of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. At Harvard he worked with Jerome Bruner and Irven DeVore. He has taught
Stephen_Nachmanovitch
Name list
industrial engineer Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English anthropologist and linguist Grégory Bauge (born 1985), French racing cyclist Gregory Baum (1923–2017)
Gregory_(given_name)
German-American cyberneticist (1932–2022)
scholar, social science methodologist, and cyberneticist. and was the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University
Klaus_Krippendorff
Formation of social divisions
introduced in the 1930s by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and has been applied to various fields. Gregory Bateson developed the concept of schismogenesis
Schismogenesis
explain ecosystems, then later to social sciences. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson is the most influential and earliest propagator of systems theory in
Systems theory in anthropology
Systems_theory_in_anthropology
Study of circular causal processes
and information, focuses on forms and the patterns that connect" (Gregory Bateson). The Ancient Greek term κυβερνητικός (kubernētikos, '(good at) steering')
Cybernetics
Family dynamics study
The Bateson Project (1953-1963) was the name given to a ground-breaking collaboration organized by Gregory Bateson which was responsible for some of the
Bateson_Project
Interdisciplinary study of systems
systems science include Russell Ackoff, Ruzena Bajcsy, Béla H. Bánáthy, Gregory Bateson, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Barbara Grosz, Brian Wilson
Systems_theory
Canadian anthropologist
Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and winner of the 2014 Gregory Bateson Prize. He is best known for the book, How Forests Think. Kohn's 2013
Eduardo_Kohn
American mathematician and philosopher (1894–1964)
information theorist Claude Shannon, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and others. Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize
Norbert_Wiener
1952 anthropology film by Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead
short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers
Trance_and_Dance_in_Bali
Communication about how information is meant to be interpreted
and (b) relationship between the communicators". Gregory Bateson invented the term in 1951. Bateson suggested the significance of metacommunication in
Meta-communication
Surname list
Wilse Bateson (1901–1978), English literary scholar Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), British anthropologist (son of William Bateson) Jack Bateson (born 1994)
Bateson
Application of cybernetics to itself
and Gregory Bateson, and with Foerster and Mead being both Macy conference participants and instigators of second-order cybernetics. Mead and Bateson, for
Second-order_cybernetics
American anthropologist (born 1952)
being human in relation with other species. The book was awarded the Gregory Bateson Prize and the Victor Turner Prize. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:
Anna_Tsing
Dance leading to a trance and a feeling of ecstasy
Bali . Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead; Bathing Babies in Three Cultures. Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead; Karba's First Years. Gregory Bateson, Margaret
Ecstatic_dance
American animal behavior scientist
a laboratory to research dolphins. The director of the laboratory, Gregory Bateson, allowed her to observe dolphin behavior, and was impressed by her
Margaret_Howe_Lovatt
Interdisciplinary conferences on cybernetics and feedback systems (1941–60)
Lawrence K. Frank, and held on 13–15 May 1942. Those invited were Gregory Bateson, Frank Beach, Carl Binger, Felix Deutsch, Flanders Dunbar, Julie Eisenbud
Macy_conferences
Set of involuntary and rhythmic muscular contractions and relaxations
tension triggers the next patellar reflex.) — Gregory Bateson, A Sacred Unity, p. 85 In the text, Bateson goes on to describe induction of clonus as a
Clonus
American anthropologist (1927–2022)
for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (1994) after conducting work on a painting series about the village of Batuan, where Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
Hildred_Geertz
Ethnicity in Papua New Guinea
totemic systems, and a famous ritual called naven, first studied by Gregory Bateson in the 1930s. More recently, Iatmul are known as a location for tourists
Iatmul_people
Branch of both theoretical and applied psychology
systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of Roger Barker, Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana and others. Groups and individuals are considered
Systems_psychology
Non-fiction film genre
deemed the "observer effect" by Gregory Bateson, who was perhaps unaware of the dogma Rouch was attempting to violate. Bateson, as one of the earliest to write
Ethnographic_film
Danish biologist (1942–2019)
of Meaning in the Universe and edited A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics. Jesper Hoffmeyer was born in Slangerup
Jesper_Hoffmeyer
German sociologist (1927–1998)
with a computer's operation: Luhmann (following Spencer-Brown and Gregory Bateson) assumes that auto-referential systems are continuously confronted
Niklas_Luhmann
1972 book by Deleuze and Guattari
Wilhelm Reich, Georges Bataille, Louis Hjelmslev, Jacques Lacan, Gregory Bateson, Pierre Klossowski, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Monod, Louis Althusser
Anti-Oedipus
1970s book series
first volume was written by Virginia Satir and the introduction by Gregory Bateson. According to psychiatrist Robert S. Spitzer, after months of careful
The_Structure_of_Magic
Postmodern literary genre
reality", LeClair invoked ideas from thinkers such as James Lovelock, Gregory Bateson and Douglas Hofstadter to analyse how the novels in question depicted
Systems_novel
Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician (1911–2002)
Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He died on
Heinz_von_Foerster
Member of dysfunctional family
intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy". Gregory Bateson considered sometimes "the identified patient sacrifices himself to
Identified_patient
1993 book by Anatole Broyard
Martinelli) and meeting famous writers and intellectuals, including Gregory Bateson, Erich Fromm, and Anaïs Nin. In 2019, The New York Times named the
Kafka_Was_the_Rage
American physician (1920 – 1968)
studied under Harry Stack Sullivan. From 1953 to 1962, he worked with Gregory Bateson, John Weakland, Jay Haley and William Fry, developing thinking in the
Donald_deAvila_Jackson
Field of psychology centered on families
boost starting in the early 1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues—Jay Haley, Donald deAvila Jackson, John Weakland, William
Family_therapy
Facts provided or learned about something or someone
representation, though not created or presented for that purpose. For example, Gregory Bateson defines "information" as a "difference that makes a difference". If
Information
2014 novel by Lily King
with her second husband, Reo Fortune, and an English anthropologist, Gregory Bateson. This inspired her to write Euphoria. On the topic, King said: Their
Euphoria_(King_novel)
American physicist and author (born 1939)
to the work of Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Ilya Prigogine, Gregory Bateson and others in proposing a new, systems-based scientific approach for
Fritjof_Capra
2015 book by anthropologist Anna Tsing
Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the 2016 Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology. The book was
The Mushroom at the End of the World
The_Mushroom_at_the_End_of_the_World
Retreat center in Big Sur, California, US
Watts, Huxley and his wife Laura, as well as by Gerald Heard and Gregory Bateson. They modeled the concept of Esalen partially upon Trabuco College
Esalen_Institute
Monetary principle
ratings rather than over- and under-valuing certain kinds of news. Gregory Bateson postulated an analogue to Gresham's law operating in cultural evolution
Gresham's_law
Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927–1989)
as a sign of some other underlying primary disorder. Then, in 1956, Gregory Bateson and his colleagues Donald Jackson and Jay Haley articulated a theory
R._D._Laing
Psychological behavior
identified as Stockholm syndrome. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Gregory Bateson theorized that schizophrenia is a pattern of learned helplessness in
Learned_helplessness
American anthropologist and author
Society for Applied Anthropology. He was also co-awarded the 2023 Gregory Bateson Award from the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He has also co-translated
Darren_Byler
American anthropologist
Collaborations with others, including initially Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and later, Erving Goffman and Dell Hymes had huge influence on his
Ray_Birdwhistell
Anthropologist
fictionalized account of the relationships between Fortune, Mead and Gregory Bateson in pre-WWII New Guinea. 1927, The Mind in Sleep. Kegan Paul. 1932,
Reo_Fortune
about his experience in asylums were republished by anthropologist Gregory Bateson in 1962, and in recent years he has been hailed as a pioneer of the
John_Thomas_Perceval
Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921–2007)
Mental Research Institute Watzlawick followed in the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and the research team (Jackson, John Weakland, Jay Haley) responsible
Paul_Watzlawick
English novelist and critic (1835–1902)
Romanes stated that Butler's views on evolution had no basis in science. Gregory Bateson often mentioned Butler and saw value in some of his ideas, calling
Samuel_Butler_(novelist)
Perception or knowledge of something
understanding of how large complex living systems work. According to Gregory Bateson, the mind is the dynamics of self-organization, and awareness is crucial
Awareness
Subfield of social anthropology
1940s and early 1950s, anthropologists such as Hortense Powdermaker, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (Trance and Dance in Bali, 1952) and Mead and Rhoda
Visual_anthropology
Cultural rule that prohibits incest
an Eskimo family 1970 Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) Gregory Bateson, Steps to an ecology of mind: collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry
Incest_taboo
Concept in philosophy
technology, biotechnology, immunology, enhancement, and addiction. Gregory Bateson points out that an important part of the Alcoholics Anonymous philosophy
Pharmakon
English suffragist (c.1830–1918)
William Henry Bateson, Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Four of her children – botanist Anna Bateson, geneticist William Bateson, journalist Margaret
Anna_Bateson
2016 book by Ted Kaczynski
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Anti-Tech_Revolution
Systematic study of people and cultures
Mead, The Nuer (1940) by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Naven (1936, 1958) by Gregory Bateson, or "The Lele of the Kasai" (1963) by Mary Douglas. Cultural and social
Ethnography
Art from the Indonesian island of Bali
famous visitors, including Charlie Chaplin and the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, encouraged the talented locals to create highly
Balinese_art
English botanist and suffragist (1863–1928)
Anna Bateson (1863 – 1928) was an English botanist, market gardener, and suffragist. After working as an assistant in botany at Newnham College, Cambridge
Anna_Bateson_(botanist)
Relationship between an object and a representation of that object
between the game's map and the “real world” territory it represents. Gregory Bateson, in his 1972 work Steps to an Ecology of Mind, argued that understanding
Map–territory_relation
Scientific study of humans, human behavior, and societies
anthropology Salvage ethnography Tribal art/Folk art Major theorists Tim Asch Gregory Bateson Franz Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore William Ferris
Anthropology
Chilean scientist and philosopher (1946–2001)
work of Varela and Maturana, as well as that of Ilya Prigogine and Gregory Bateson. Varela's 1991 book The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human
Francisco_Varela
Approach in psychological anthropology
Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, Melford Spiro, and at least tangentially Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, and Marvin Opler. Active research and training programs
Clinical_ethnography
American psychiatrist (1901–1980)
communications relating to combat. In this capacity, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were among those with whom Erickson worked and with whom he developed
Milton_H._Erickson
British academic (1935–2019)
that originated with Plato's Cratylus. Along with such figures as Gregory Bateson (i.e., Steps to an Ecology of Mind), R. D. Laing (i.e., Sanity, Madness
Anthony_Wilden
Interrelated entities that form a whole
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
System
Interpretation of body motion communication
an Interview, a long-term interdisciplinary collaboration including Gregory Bateson, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Norman A. McQuown, Henry W. Brosin and others
Kinesics
British journalist and suffragist
William Bateson, whose son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, and sister of the historian Mary Bateson and botanist Anna Bateson. She
Margaret_Heitland
Wertheimer Psychoanalytic school: Sigmund Freud Systems psychology: Gregory Bateson, Felix Guattari The list below includes these, and other, influential
List_of_psychological_schools
Branch of engineering and mathematics
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Control_theory
Italian psychiatrist (1916–1999)
team is imagined as a system was based on American anthropologist Gregory Bateson's cybernetics theory, the work of the Mental Research Institute (MRI)
Mara_Selvini_Palazzoli
English academic (1812–1881)
cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. "Bateson, William Henry (BT829WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Janet Shepherd, 'Bateson, William
William_Henry_Bateson
Research field
its influence spread within the social sciences. Anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margret Mead had already been prominent during the Macy conferences
Sociocybernetics
American family therapist (1919 – 1995)
chemical engineer with the DuPont Company before a chance encounter with Gregory Bateson led him to pursue anthropology at Columbia University. While at Columbia
John_Weakland
Hungarian linguist and systems scientist (1919–2003)
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Béla_H._Bánáthy
American project developer (born 1938)
Hess, Orville Schell, Ivan Illich, Wendell Berry, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Bateson, Amory Lovins, Hazel Henderson, Gary Snyder, Lynn Margulis, Eric Drexler
Stewart_Brand
Examining complex systems as a whole
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Systems_thinking
Giambattista Vico William Alston G. E. M. Anscombe Robert Audi A. J. Ayer Gregory Bateson Harry Binswanger Laurence Bonjour Mario Bunge Jonathan Dancy Gilles
List_of_epistemologists
Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
"counter-uncovering") while trying to get or hide an information. Goffman credited Gregory Bateson for creating the idea of framing and psychological frames. Frame Analysis:
Erving_Goffman
School of thought on cognition and problem-solving
Robert Anton Wilson § Probability reliance Related persons Aristotle Gregory Bateson Sanford I. Berman Albert Ellis Elwood Murray Allen Walker Read Wilhelm
General_semantics
Movements in cognitive science critical of cognitivism
post-cognitive directions include Andy Clark, James J. Gibson, Hubert Dreyfus, Gregory Bateson, Michael Turvey, Bradd Shore, Jerome Bruner, Vittorio Guidano, Humberto
Postcognitivism
British anthropologist
anthropology Salvage ethnography Tribal art/Folk art Major theorists Tim Asch Gregory Bateson Franz Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore William Ferris
Alfred_Gell
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Richard_Bellman
Concept in behavioral economics, political theory and behavioral sciences
methodological influences from clinical psychotherapy tracing back to Gregory Bateson, including contributions from Milton Erickson, Watzlawick, Weakland
Nudge_theory
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Donella_Meadows
Class of philosophies
Hassan include Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, cyberneticists such as Gregory Bateson, Warren McCullouch, Norbert Wiener, and thinkers such as Bruno Latour
Posthumanism
System of ownership, production and exchange
principles, laws, institutions, and understandings business is conducted." Gregory and Stuart, Paul and Robert (February 28, 2013). The Global Economy and
Economic_system
American family therapist and author (1923 – 2007)
children, Kathleen, Gregory, and Andrew, with his wife Elizabeth. While at Stanford, Haley met the anthropologist Gregory Bateson who invited him to join
Jay_Haley
Medical intervention
lasting negative results. Attack therapy Diversity training Eric Trist Gregory Bateson Groupthink J.L. Moreno John Rawlings Rees Quaesitor Synergy William
Sensitivity_training
French philosopher and sociologist (1921–2026)
Stéphane Lupasco, Bronowski, and was introduced to the thought of Gregory Bateson and the "new problematic in ecology". In 1970, Morin married Johanne
Edgar_Morin
American anthropologist (born 1959)
Medical Anthropology National character studies Syndemic Major theorists Gregory Bateson Maurice Bloch Charles L. Briggs Veena Das George Devereux Cora Du Bois
Tanya_Luhrmann
1935 book by Margaret Mead
Fortune then met fellow anthropologist Gregory Bateson and moved to Tchambuli Lake and their final field site, with Bateson continuing his fieldwork nearby with
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Sex_and_Temperament_in_Three_Primitive_Societies
Effect of how information is presented on perception
7 of Frame Analysis, Goffman credits Gregory Bateson with introducing him to frames, writing "it is in Bateson's paper ("A Theory of Play and Fantasy")
Framing_(social_sciences)
Fredrik Barth Vasily Bartold Keith H. Basso Daisy Bates Gregory Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson Richard Bauman Ruth Behar Ruth Benedict Dorothy A. Bennett
List_of_anthropologists
Problem-solving technique that breaks down a system into its component pieces
Leveson Russell L. Ackoff Howard T. Odum Henry Paynter Jay Forrester Gregory Bateson Stewart Brand Buckminster Fuller Robert S. McNamara Stafford Beer Ludwig
Systems_analysis
Study of the nature of systems
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy Gregory Bateson Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret Boden
Systems_science
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(Григорий) Russian form of Greek Gregorios, GRIGORIY means "watchful; vigilant."
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Vigilant.
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Italian Form of Gregory; Watchful; Vigilant; Warrior
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Romanian form of Latin Gregorius, GRIGORE means "watchful; vigilant."
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Welsh form of Latin Gregorius, GRIGOR means "watchful; vigilant."
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English : from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake’, ‘to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis, ‘flock’, ‘herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America the English form of the name has absorbed many cognates from other European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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English form of French Provençal Grégory, GREGORY means "watchful; vigilant."
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Polish form of Greek Gregorios, GRZEGORZ means "watchful; vigilant."
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Short form of English Gregory, and Scottish Gregor, GREGG means "watchful; vigilant."
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Watchful. Famous bearer: American actor Gregory Peck, and Pope Gregory I who was also known as St...
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Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Gregorius, GREGORIO means "watchful; vigilant."
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Short form of English Gregory, and Scottish Gregor, both GREG means "watchful; vigilant."
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Variant spelling of Russian Grigoriy, GRIGORY means "watchful; vigilant."
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Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Greek Gregorios, GREGERS means "watchful; vigilant."
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Watchful; Vigilant
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Vigilant Watchman; Watchful; Alert
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Variant spelling of Russian Grigoriy, GRIGORI means "watchful; vigilant."
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Scottish form of Latin Gregorius, GREGOR means "watchful; vigilant."
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Swedish form of Greek Gregorios, GREGER means "watchful; vigilant."
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a.
The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
n.
A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
n.
A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.
n.
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
n.
Alt. of Grego
a.
Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
n.
An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.
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