* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

He was — according to the Dictionary of National Biography — a very good man of business.

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 ".

* Dictionary of National Biography.

" Elizabeth I ( 1533 – 1603 )" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( 2008 ) accessed 23 Aug 2011

" Hayek, Friedrich August ( 1899 – 1992 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online

* Blair, Eric Arthur ( George Orwell ) ( 1903 – 1950 ) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

* Full biography: " Evans, Marian &# 91 ; George Eliot &# 93 ; ( 1819 – 1880 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2008

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford University Press ).

* Mark Nicholls, The Gunpowder Plot, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ( accessed 07 November 2010 )

‘ Wells, Herbert George ( 1866 – 1946 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 21 Mar 2012.

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

The American National Biography lists Hanson's birth date as April 3, 1721, which in the modern calendar system is equivalent to April 14, although the older Dictionary of American Biography gives the date as April 13, 1721.

* Dictionary of National Biography

* Anne Hudson and Anthony Kenny, " Wyclif, John ( d. 1384 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 May 2007

* Mary Flowers, " Fuchs, ( Emil Julius ) Klaus ( 1911 – 1988 )", rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004,, accessed 24 September 2005.

* Weikel, Ann ( 2004 ; online edition 2008 ) " Mary I ( 1516 – 1558 )" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

" Cromwell, Oliver ( 1599 – 1658 )", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press

* L. R. Croft, " Gosse, Philip Henry ( 1810 – 1888 )," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.

* Dictionary of National Biography

* The Summer of Love, Performers in Britain and the United States, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the American National Biography

* Inklings, entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

He was a member of the London-based Political Economy Club and the British Dictionary of National Biography says of him:

note: Sir George Darwin is buried in Trumpington Cemetery, according to the article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

Percival Serle wrote of Phillip in his Dictionary of Australian Biography:

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

Dictionary of Ming Biography.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

This article incorporates text from the entry Demiurgus in A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines by William Smith and Henry Wace ( 1877 ), a publication now in the public domain.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

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* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Bowden, Henry W. Dictionary of American Religious Biography.

* Henry Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, ccel. org

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.

The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology ( Baker, 1984 ) says:

The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.

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 Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy says it is the investigation of the most general and abstract features of the world and the categories with which we think, in order to " lay bare their foundations and presuppositions ".

The often referred to Interpreter ’ s Dictionary of the Bible, a book written to prove the validity of the New Testament, says: ” A study of 150 Greek of the Gospel of Luke has revealed more than 30, 000 different readings ...

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase " tug of war " originally meant " the decisive contest ; the real struggle or tussle ; a severe contest for supremacy ".

The Encarta Dictionary says its ultimate origin is uncertain, but perhaps it may come from Latin Equiferus meaning " Wild horse ," from equus " horse " and ferus " wild, untamed ".

The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.

The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary says that English got it from French and that its first known appearance in English writing was in 1670.

As the Dictionary of the Middle Ages says, " William's achievements in assembling and evaluating sources, and in writing in excellent and original Latin a critical and judicious ( if chronologically faulty ) narrative, make him an outstanding historian, superior by medieval, and not inferior by modern, standards of scholarship.

The Oxford English Dictionary says ( as its last definition of

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: " In the 17th century Champlain fixed its present orthography, with the ' r ' omitted, and ( the Canadian historian ) W. F. Ganong has shown its gradual progress northwards, in a succession of maps, to its resting place in the Atlantic Provinces.

The Easton's Bible Dictionary ( 1897 ) says that Teil tree is an old name for the linden tree, the tilia ( also known as " lime tree " in the UK ).

The public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, published in 1897, says,

The Grove Dictionary says that as of 1756, " Mozart was already well-known.

Of Leopold's attitude, the Grove Dictionary says:

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says that it was in the 15th century ( when the Renaissance stirred up new interest in ancient Rome ) that " Pontifex Maximus " became a regular title of honour for Popes.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) says that the word puss is common to several Germanic languages, usually as a call name for the cat — not a synonym for cat, as it is in English.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: " Arcadia, the name Verrazzano gave to Maryland or Virginia ' on account of the beauty of the trees ,' made its first cartographical appearance in the 1548 Gastaldo map and is the only name on that map to survive in Canadian usage.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable says grinning like a Cheshire cat is " an old simile, popularised by Lewis Carroll ".

Various dates are given, with Ian Walker, the biographer of Harold arguing for between 1053 and 1055, but H. E. J. Cowdrey, who wrote Robert's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, says on 26 May in either 1052 or 1055.

Murray ( the historian of the later Oxford English Dictionary ) says Webster's unabridged edition of 1864 " acquired an international fame.