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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 Oxford County Sheriff deputy Matt Baker
, King was hit
from behind
and some witnesses said
the driver was not speeding
, reckless
, or drinking
.
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 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 and English
According to The American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language
, Asgard is derived
from Old Norse āss
, god + garðr
, enclosure ;
from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit
, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp
, enclose ( see cognates garden
and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in
the same work .</ ref >
According to one anecdote (
from Al Capp Remembered
, 1994 ), Capp
and his brother Elliot ducked out
of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone
to fend
for himself entertaining
a group
of Argentine envoys who didn't speak
English.
According to IUPAC
, chemical elements are not proper nouns in
English ; consequently
, the full name
of an element is not routinely capitalized in
English, even if derived
from a proper noun
, as in californium
and einsteinium
.
According to biographer Carol Easton
, Beatrice grew up in
a middle-class
English household
.
According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ),
the earliest written occurrence in
English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on
the History
of Civil Society ( Edinburgh
, 1767 – p
. 2 ): " Not only
the individual advances
from infancy
to manhood
, but
the species itself
from rudeness
to civilisation
.
According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History
of the English People
, the term is interchangeable with
the Gewisse
, meaning
the descendants
of Gewis
.
According to Edward Barlow
, a captain employed by
the English East India Company
, Kidd attacked
a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman
, and was repelled
.
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
.
According to the 19th-century book
, English Botany
, Or
, Coloured Figures
of British Plants:
According to some researchers
, despite
the significant differences between
the writing systems
, Italian
, German
and English populations suffer similarly
from dyslexia
.
According to William Lutz: “ Only by teaching respect
and love
for the language can teachers
of English instill in students
the sense
of outrage they should experience when they encounter doublespeak
.
According to the World
English Bible translation
, Titus 1: 12-13 reads ( in part ) " One
of them
, a prophet
of their own
, said
, ' Cretans are always liars
, evil beasts
, and idle gluttons
.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
, the term has two distinct definitions in modern
English.
According to some
, due
to a misunderstanding arising
from differences in pronunciation between French
and English, the commonly used brass embouchure in Europe was interpreted incorrectly
.
According to Ministry
of Education guidelines
, and the opinions
of educators
, the use
of Japanese furigana should be avoided in
English teaching due
to the differences in pronunciation between
English and Japanese
.
According and Corpus
According to one nineteenth-century writer
, at
a time when it was hard
for unknown painters
to come
to the attention
of the Royal Academy
, he first found notice by displaying
a painting at
the " small
Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after
the regular one ) on
the Place Dauphine ( by
the Pont Neuf ).
According to the United States Census Bureau
, Corpus Christi has
a total area
of 460
. 2 square miles ( 1
, 192
. 0 km < sup > 2 </ sup >),
of which 154
. 6 square miles ( 400
. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, 33
. 60 %)
of it is land
and 305
. 6 square miles ( 791
. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, 66
. 40 %) is water
.
According to the Corpus, the natural state
of humanity is freedom
, but
the " law
of nations " may supersede natural law
and reduce certain people
to slavery
.

Another researcher summarizes it as "
the most thorough exposition
of celestial magic in Arabic ", indicating
the sources
for the work as " Arabic
texts on Hermeticism
, Sabianism
, Ismailism
, astrology
, alchemy
and magic produced in
the Near East in
the ninth
and tenth centuries A
. D ."
According to Eugenio Garin " In reality
the Latin version
of the Picatrix is as indispensable as
the Corpus Hermeticum or
the writings
of Albumasar
for understanding
a conspicuous part
of the production
of the Renaissance
, including
the figurative arts
.
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