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Date "EUTYCHUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Specialty Definition: EUTYCHUS

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Bible1: (fortunate), a youth at Troas, (Acts 20:9) who sitting in a window, and having fallen asleep while St. Paul was discoursing, fell from the third story, and being taken up dead, was miraculously restored to life by the apostle. (references)
 2: Eutychus fortunate, (Acts 20:9-12), a young man of Troas who fell through drowsiness from the open window of the third floor of the house where Paul was preaching, and was "taken up dead." The lattice-work of the window being open to admit the air, the lad fell out and down to the court below. Paul restored him to life again. (Comp. 1 Kings 17:21; 2 Kings 4:34.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

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