A slang term for a murder which leaves the body intact, after William Burke who ran a business murdering people and selling the bodies to medical schools
Irish-born British politician and writer. Famous for his oratory, he pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and was instrumental in developing the notions of party responsibility and a loyal opposition within the parliamentary system. His major work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), voices his opposition to the excesses of the French experience. See Martha Jane Burk
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
Burke calls for "a 'dramatistic' approach to the nature of language,...[one] stressing language as an aspect of 'action,' that is, as 'symbolic action'" (1034) Elsewhere Burke defines rhetoric as a "symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols" (A Rhetoric of Motives, 43)
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question
{f} strangle; suffocate someone to death, murder somebody quietly and without leaving wounds or traces (Archaic); get rid of; silence, suppress; evade, avoid, bypass
"I'll give this much to Burke, he was a man of nerveBut he couldn't pick a bushman from a cove "
a British Whig politician, born in Dublin, Ireland. He wrote many works of political theory and was also a great speaker (1729-97). born January 12?, 1729, Dublin, Ire. died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng. British parliamentarian, orator, and political philosopher. The son of a lawyer, he began legal studies but lost interest, became estranged from his father, and spent some time wandering about England and France. Essays he published in 1757-58 gained the attention of Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Gotthold Lessing, and he was hired to edit a yearly survey of world affairs (1758-88). He entered politics (1765) as secretary to a Whig leader and soon became involved in the controversy over whether Parliament or the monarch controlled the executive. He argued (1770) that George III's efforts to reassert a more active role for the crown violated the constitution's spirit. Elected to Parliament (1774-80), he contended that its members should exercise judgment rather than merely follow their constituents' desires. Although a strong constitutionalist, he was not a supporter of pure democracy; although a conservative, he eloquently championed the cause of the American colonists, whom he regarded as badly governed, and he supported the abolition of the international slave trade. He tried unsuccessfully to legislate relief for Ireland and to reform the governance of India. He disapproved of the French Revolution for its leaders' precipitous actions and its antiaristocratic bloodshed. He is often regarded as the founder of modern conservatism
burke
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Burke
التركية النطق
bırk
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/ˈbərk/ /ˈbɜrk/
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[ 'b&rk ] (transitive verb.) 1840. Eponym, from William Burke.