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.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

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" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.

: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.

* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

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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.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:

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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 ".

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The 17th and 18th centuries include what is known as a golden age of libraries ; during this some of the more important libraries were founded in Europe, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British Museum Library in London, the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M. E.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

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Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests and organized an October 1969 Moratorium event.

Since the Oxford Movement there has also been a modest flourishing of Benedictine monasticism in the Anglican Church and Protestant Churches.

He also secured the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the army, and of religious tests for admission to Oxford and Cambridge ; the introduction of the secret ballot in elections ; the legalization of trade unions ; and the reorganization of the judiciary in the Judicature Act.

Chaplin was also awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees by the University of Oxford and the University of Durham in 1962.

There are also clubs in many Universities and Colleges, with an annual Varsity match being played between Oxford and Cambridge.

He was also a visiting professor at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.

In the dedication to Zelauto, Munday also mentioned having delivered the now lost Galien of France to Oxford for his ' courteous and gentle perusing '.

Oxford was wounded and his servant killed, reports conflict as to whether Kynvet was also injured.

Oxford also patronised a company of musicians, as evidenced by payments in 1584 – 85 by the cities of Oxford and Barnstaple to " the Earl of Oxford's musicians ".

Oxford complained that his servant Thomas Hampton had taken advantage of these writs by taking money from the tenants to his own use, and had also conspired with another of Oxford's servants to pass a fraudulent document under the Great Seal of England.

The following year The Arte of English Poesie, attributed to George Puttenham, placed Oxford among a " crew " of courtier poets ; he also considered Oxford among the best comic playwrights of the day.

John Armstrong, who was also a native of New York, began working at the Oxford University Press at a young age and eventually reached the position of Vice President of the American branch.

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father ’ s request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines grok as " to understand intuitively or by empathy ; to establish rapport with " and " to empathise or communicate sympathetically ( with ); also, to experience enjoyment ".

His father Henry Nottidge Moseley ( 1844 – 91 ), who died when Henry Moseley was quite young, was a biologist and also a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, who had been a member of the Challenger Expedition.

John Wycliffe (; also spelt Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe ) ( c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.

* Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, one of the Church of England's designated Evangelical theological colleges, is also named in his honour.

Radcliffe, however, not only wrote little but also took a certain iconoclastic pride in having read little, remarking once of some vials of herbs and a skeleton in his study: “ This is Radcliffe ’ s library .” However, he bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Oxford for the founding of the Radcliffe Library, an endowment which, Samuel Garth quipped, was “ about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio .”

He is also an honorary fellow of his alma mater, St Peter's College, Oxford.

He also possessed considerable intelligence and athletic ability, evidenced by his playing cricket for Oxford University while earning a First.

Ken Farnes, the Cambridge University fast bowler, also bowled it in the University Match, hitting a few Oxford batsmen.