Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: lacuna
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
Brewer's: Catholic League
(The), 1614. A confederacy of Catholics to counter-balance the Evangelic League (q.v.) of Bohemia. The two Leagues kept Germany in perpetual disturbance, and ultimately led to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|
Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
