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patent(2) (iou)



patent noun. LME.
[Ellipt. for letters patent: see PATENT adjective.]
A document constituting letters patent; esp. a licence from a government to an individual or organization conferring for a set period the sole right to make, use, or sell some process or invention; a right conferred in this way. LME.
G. Burnet They thought fit to take out a patent, which constituted them a body, by the name of the Royal Society. Scientific American The first patent on a living organism became the cornerstone of the biotechnology industry.
b. A papal licence or indulgence. Only in LME.
c. gen. An official certificate or licence; esp. a Health certificate. E-M17.
fig. A sign of entitlement or possession; licence, permission, title. L16.
M. O. W. Oliphant That hand..was a patent of gentility.
An area of land conferred by letters patent. US. M17.
A process, invention, or commodity for which a patent has been taken out. M19.
Comb.: patent office an office which issues patents and where claims to patents are examined; patent-right the exclusive right conferred by letters patent; patent roll in Britain, a parchment roll containing the letters patent issued in any one year.
patenter noun (rare) = PATENTEE M17-L19.

Duccio (di Buoninsegna) (sh)




born 13th century, Siena, Republic of Siena
died งใ 1318, Siena?

Italian painter.

Little is known of his life, but several commission records survive, as well as two documented works, the Rucellai Madonna for the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella (1285) and the famous Maesta altarpiece for Siena Cathedral (1308-11); both represent landmarks in the history of Italian painting. His style reflected the influence of Cimabue and Byzantine Art, though he introduced a warmth of human feeling that was comparable to that of Giotto in Florentine painting. He was the leading painter in Siena, one of Italy's most vital artistic centres in the Middle Ages.


Rucellai Madonna, tempera on wood by Duccio, 1285; in the Uffizi ...

Alinari/Art Resource, New York