According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to Henry Howard, Oxford paid a large sum for the property and renovations to it.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).

According to Oxford lexicographer Susie Dent, Moon, Entwistle, and Page were talking about forming a supergroup.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning " to gird up ; to tuck up ( the skirts ) round the body ", which is apparently of Scandinavian origin.

According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in history.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 1933 ) the term " carol " was first used in England for this type of circle dance accompanied by singing in manuscripts dating to as early as 1300.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the first recorded instance of the word.

According to Anderson, Oxford definitely visited Venice, Padua, Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Florence, Siena and Naples, and probably passed through Messina, Mantua and Verona, all cities used as settings by Shakespeare.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning " of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons, one's own ;" hence the council is personal to the sovereign.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, psychotherapy first meant " hypnotherapy " instead of " psychotherapy ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first figurative use of the term appeared in the 1902 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica relating to an entry on the chemical analysis of glucose.

According to the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a state is " a an organized political community under one government ; a commonwealth ; a nation.

According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of 21st Century texts that contains everything from academic journal articles to unedited writing and blog entries, contemporary writers opt for the nonstandard ' chords ' instead of ' cords ' 49 % of the time.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the etymology is " uncertain and disputed ": " The word is perhaps related to the Sardinian place names Nurra, Nurri, Nurru, and to Sardinian nurra heap of stones, cavity in earth ( although these senses are difficult to reconcile ).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( second edition 1989 ), valerian is derived from a Latin adjectival form of the personal name Valerius.

According to Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.

According to an 1892 letter, Casement believed that she was descended from the Catholic Jephson family of Mallow, County Cork.

According to his father's desire that his youngest son should choose a < em > gentleman's </ em > vocation, William, after his graduation from high school, entered the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn as a clerk, where he spent long hours adding numbers.

According to the 1841 Census, County Donegal had a population of 296, 000 people.

According to the 2011 Census, 17, 132 say they can speak Irish in the County Donegal Gaeltacht.

According to Sherman, the trek across the Lumber River, and through the swamps, pocosins, and creeks of Robeson County was " the damnedest marching I ever saw.

According to its website, " Choose Civility is an ongoing community-wide initiative, led by Howard County Library, to position Howard County as a model of civility.

According to the City of Las Vegas ' 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the greater Clark County area are:

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Orange County has a total area of, of which is land and ( 6. 10 %) is water.

According to Bo Bryan, a noted Carolina Shag historian and resident of Beaufort County, the term was coined at Carolina Beach, North Carolina.

According to the Florida Times-Union, in October 2004, there were 106, 114 registered voters in Clay County.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Clay County were African 56. 3 %, English 35 % and Scots-Irish 4. 5 %.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Montgomery County were African 44. 95 %, English 42. 1 %, and Scots-Irish 1 %.

According to the 2000 Census the largest European ancestry groups in Marion County were English ( 18. 7 %), German ( 16. 7 %) and Irish ( 14. 0 %).

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the Montgomery County has a total area of 502 square miles ( 1, 299 km² ), of which, 492 square miles ( 1, 273 km² ) of it is land and 10 square miles ( 26 km² ) of it ( 2. 00 %) is water.

According to the Maryland Geological Survey, the highest point in Kent County is 102 feet above sea level, approximately 2. 25 miles west of Coleman's Corner ( shown on maps as " Coleman ") just northeast of the mouth of Still Pond Creek.

According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 80, 000 in mid 2005, with 19, 720 in the adjacent town of Kempston.

According to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article " Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment ?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Sevier County has the highest rate of online pornography usage in the United States.

According to " The Boone Family " book by Hazel Atterbury Spraker ( 1982 ), " was buried near the body of his wife, in a cemetery established in 1803 by David Bryan, upon the bank of a small stream called Teuque Creek about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the town of Marthasville in Warren County, Missouri, it being at that time the only Protestant cemetery North of the Missouri River.

According to the most recent estimates from the U. S. Census of 2009, the total population of Broward County had risen to almost 1. 8 million people ( 1, 754, 846 ), and increased by 10. 1 % between April 1, 2000 and July 1, 2006.

According to an October 2001 Census Brief of the 2000 Census, Charlotte County had the highest median age of any U. S. county with a population of more than 100, 000 people at 54. 3.

According to the Supervisor of Elections website, for the 2008 general election there were 536, 584 registered voters in Duval County, of which 417, 599 cast ballots for a voter turnout of 77. 83 %.

According to the World Atlas USA, Hernando County is the geographic center of Florida.