* For Ibn Sina's life, see Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated by de Slane ( 1842 ); F. Wüstenfeld's Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher ( Göttingen, 1840 ).

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary mistakenly gives his year of birth as 939.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

* Powell J., Blakeley D. W., Powell, T. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800 – 1914.

Biographical Dictionary of Republican China.

Biographical Dictionary of Republican China ( 1970 ) 3: 170-89, complete text online

* Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook, Pamela S. Nadell, Greenwood Press, NY 1988

* Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004.

A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635 – 1789.

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after Dr James Gregory's death, he was " recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland ".

( The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth erroneusly as 1725.

) 1995, A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Rev.

Women under the Third Reich: A Biographical Dictionary.

* Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints.

Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1991.

; Alexander Chalmers, Biographical Dictionary, s. v.

* Biographical Entry – The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary ( 1897 ) incorrectly ascribes denial of the virgin birth to Ferenc Dávid, leader of the Transylvanian Unitarians.

The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists.

A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Revised Edition.

Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology.

A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms ( 23 – 220 AD ).

The Dharma Dictionary, a list of highly unusual terms used in connection with Eurasian proto-senility cults.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

* A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy ( with his brother C. R. Aikin ), 2 vols.

* Digital Dictionary of Buddhism ( log in with userID " guest ")

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary states that the word " ften ( and perhaps originally ) applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of duty.

Many Canadian editors, though, use the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, often along with the chapter on spelling in Editing Canadian English, and, where necessary ( depending on context ), one or more other references.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

The respective first accurate glosses for Taoism were " douizm ; tou -" ( Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed., 1934 ) and " Also Daoism and with pronunc.

However, Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( 1728 ), and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D ' Alembert ( 1751 onwards ), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method.

John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves – to give its full title.

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

* The New Hacker's Dictionary ( editor ) ( MIT Press, paperback ISBN 0-262-68092-0, cloth ISBN 0-262-18178-9 ) — printed version of the Jargon File with Raymond listed as the editor.

As the Britannica is a general encyclopaedia, it does not seek to compete with specialised encyclopaedias such as the Encyclopaedia of Mathematics or the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, which can devote much more space to their chosen topics.

The definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary incorporates suffering as a necessary condition, with " the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma ", and this approach can be seen as a part of other works, such as Marvin Khol and Paul Kurtz's " a mode or act of inducing or permitting death painlessly as a relief from suffering ".

The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as " The department of theological science concerned with ‘ the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and hell ’.

" According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, " Paul's authorship was undisputed in antiquity and was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities.