This dates back to the early 20th century ; the Oxford English Dictionary notes its first usage in this capacity in 1913.

The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators ; Suffolk: Antique Collector ’ s Club

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites this word as evolving slowly through roughly the last third of the 20th century, with the first cited reference being poet Jaime Carrero using neorriqueño in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining neoyorquino and puertorriqueño.

" The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) records that the phrase " big blond beast " was used in the 20th century to refer specifically to men " of the Nordic type " ( that is to say, blond-haired ).

In his book The Human Body, Isaac Asimov noted a comment about the term idiopathic made in the 20th edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary: " A high-flown term to conceal ignorance ".

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Russell was born on the 20th of September, 1766.

In addition to his campaigning for Sibelius, Downes, according to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, did much to advance the cause of other 20th century composers, including Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich in the U. S.

* Dictionary of American English, a dictionary of terms appearing in English in the United States ( 20th century )

* Dictionary of 20th Century Music Thames & Hudson 1974

Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it covers American English words and phrases in use from the first English settlements up to the start of the 20th century.

A Dictionary of 20th century artists, trends and anti-images.

Some writers in the 20th century erroneously speculated that walking the plank may be a myth created by cinema ; however, the phrase " walking the plank " is recorded in English writer Francis Grose's " Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ", which was published in 1788 ( first published in 1785 ).

* " 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ", Vol.

* Slonimsky, Nicolas, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, edited by Laura Kuhn.

* " Komar and Melamid " The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century Prestel Verlag, New York, 2000.

* Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians ( 1997 )

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as " the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century.

She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish Writers.

* Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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

Meanwhile, he wrote entries, ultimately thousands during 1883 – 1909, on philosophy, logic, science, and other subjects for the encyclopedic Century Dictionary.

' Positivism in the Twentieth Century ( Logical Empiricism )', Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 1974, Gale Group ( Electronic Edition )

* Easton's Bible Dictionary ( 1897 ), another popular 19th Century Bible Dictionary.

* Mockumentary definitions at Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary. com's 21st Century Lexicon

Samuel Johnson ( author of A Dictionary of the English Language and a member of Pembroke College ) was a frequent visitor to the Senior Common Room at University College during the 18th Century ).

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 52 – 4.

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 54 – 5.

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 59 – 62.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work asserting that it was derived from the fancy, a collective term from England used to describe the fans of a specific hobby or sport from the early 18th Century to the 19th, especially to the followers of boxing.

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8, 500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, was based on Noah Webster ’ s American Dictionary edition of 1841.

The American edition of Charles Annandale's four volume revision of The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1883 by the Century Company, was more comprehensive than the Unabridged.

The Century Dictionary, an expansion of the Imperial first published from 1889 to 1891, covered a larger vocabulary until the publication of Webster's Second in 1934, after the Century had ceased publication.

Among larger dictionaries during this period was ( non-Merriam ) Webster's Universal Dictionary ( also published as Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary ) which traced its roots to Noah Webster and called itself " unabridged ", but had less than half the vocabulary and paled in scholarship against the Merriam editions.

The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc.

Dictionary. com's 21st Century Lexicon defines civil society as 1 ) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens or 2 ) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government.

* Donald W. Klein & Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, ( Cambridge, Mass.

A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism ( Princeton University Press, 2010 ).

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of opportunism in this context is " the policy or practice of making concessions to bourgeois elements of society ", as " a stage in the implementation of Socialism or Communism ", where an opportunist is " a socialist or communist who advocates the making of concessions to the bourgeoisie ".

`` The Dictionary Of Occupational Titles '' published by the U. S. Department of Labor describes him as follows: `` Designs, plans and furnishes interiors of houses, commercial and institutional structures, hotels, clubs, ships, theaters, as well as set decorations for motion picture arts and television.

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

Dictionary forms found to match forms in the text list are marked.

Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Thames and Hudson.

Much work has been done on the reconstruction of Proto-Mon – Khmer in Harry L. Shorto's Mon – Khmer Comparative Dictionary.

A Specimen of typeset font s and language s, by William Caslon, letter founder ; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | Cyclopaedia.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

*" Asterales-Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

" Dictionary and Thesaurus-Merriam-Webster Online.

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

This traditional geographical definition is used, for example, in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, as well as the archeological community.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 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 ).

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

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.

* Culinan. net – Dictionary development & Sign Language Network

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.

" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

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 Hymnology, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.