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.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

" " 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.

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

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.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford University Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-19-504652-8

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:

The systems also came with a number of smaller built-in applications such as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Oxford Quotations, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and the Digital Librarian search engine to access them.

Of these, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, The Yale Book of Quotations and The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases are considered among the most reliable and comprehensive sources.

..." -- Andreas Vesalius, 595: 2 of Bynum & Porter, Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations 2005

Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ( Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 1999 ).

By 1979, this phrase had entered the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Their writing style, as they described it, was to write down the first thing that came into their heads, lifting words and phrases from the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a Collected Shakespeare, and a Dictionary of Quotations: " We opened books at random, choosing a word or phrase haphazardly.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ( 3rd edition, 1979 ) lists only one substantiated Spoonerism-" The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer ".

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations includes no fewer than fourteen of its sixteen lines:

Ned Sherrin included the quote in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations ; it was introduced in the third edition in 2005.

It is also included in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.

Though mainly a golf writer, he also occasionally wrote on cricket, and prefaced the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

" The question, originally an ad lib by Julia Lang, became so well known that it ended up in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations It has been incorporated and sampled by many artists and musicians.

And they practically raise themselves, what with the Internet and all ", entered The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations in August 2007.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 1979, Oxford University Press.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, 2004.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits Robin Morgan with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful.

Since 2005 Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source " Oxford American Dictionaries ", and contains the full text of NOAD2.

Streitz credits Oxford with the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits William J. Grayson with having first used the phrase master race, in his poem The Hireling and the Slave ( 1855 ):

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot.

His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.

And the prestigious Oxford Brookes University even recognizes the CBDDip as 20 of 80 credits in its MBA ( Global )!

The Oxford English Dictionary credits him as one of the earliest users of the word sexist, in the pamphlet " Freedom for Movement Girls Now ", published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee ( a progressive student organization in the southern United States ), wherein he was active during the 1960s.

Having graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2008, Laurence has built up a portfolio of theatre credits including ' Twelfth Night ' with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mad Forest and Paradise Lost at Southwark Playhouse.

During his time on Blue Peter, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits him with coining two quotations now prominent in British popular culture: the line " And now for something completely different " – later taken up by, and usually attributed to, Monty Python – was used as a segue to different parts of the programme ; and " Here's one I made earlier " was used during the construction of models on the show, and has since been adopted by nearly all subsequent presenters on Blue Peter.