Associations to the word «Polycarp»

Dictionary definition

POLYCARP, noun. Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope