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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.
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`` 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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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* Dictionary. com's definition of " wibble ", attributed to Roger Irrelevant ( archived from the original on April 14, 2008 )
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Also on sale is the smaller 21st Century Dictionary of 1664 pages, where " the focus is on the English that people use today, and definitions are given in straightforward, accessible language ".
* Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus or Chambers Biographical Dictionary
This term was known by the end of the 19th century and listed in the second edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and remains in use at the start of the 21st century.
In the early 21st century, the online and CD-ROM editions of the Macmillan English Dictionary gave two different spoken readings of the headword for the entry " George, St. – the PATRON SAINT of England ": the American reading was the correct " Saint George ," but the British reading was " George Street.
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English explains the origin of the latter term as " pseudo-French ", although French sources from the mid-19th century have used the term, e. g. Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l ' opéra ( 1876 ), La revue des deux mondes ( 1868 ), and have continued the practice into the 21st century.
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* 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 )
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.
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