Priestley
priest·ley
noun
1.
English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
Origin
Habitational surname from aby of various minor places in North Yorkshire, from Old English prēost (“priest”) + lēah (“wood clearing, meadow, leigh”). Equivalent to priest + -ley (“lea”).
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