leary

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noun United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)

My mother, therefore, asked Leary, who drove the jaunting-car, how far we were from Mr. Bourke's? — Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Unknown
In many ways he spoke like the early Timothy Leary, using tech- nology instead of drugs as a mental catalyst. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
The story-tellers say that St. Patrick was preaching to Leary, the heathen King of Tara in Ireland hoping to turn him into a Christian. — Woodland Tales, Ernest Thompson Seton

Tim Leary, Timothy Leary, Timothy Francis Leary

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