At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

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.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

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

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

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

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.

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 ".

According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.

* 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.

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

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

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

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 Oxford English dictionary cites a 1962 technical report as the first to use the term " data-base.

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 ).

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning " precipice ", or stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng " not far from Salisbury " recorded by 11th-century writers are " supported stones ".

The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language as a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill's Jamaca Viewed: " Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat.

Since the 18th century, " Orientalist " has been the traditional term for a scholar of Oriental studies ; however the use in English of " Orientalism " to describe the academic subject of " Oriental studies " is rare ; the Oxford English Dictionary cites only one such usage, by Lord Byron in 1812.

The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for " Saturday-night carousers " in the writer Guy Beringer's article " Brunch: A Plea " in Hunter's Weekly

The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1891 use of the term " bull market ".

The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first known usage in the English language as being in April 1909, in the pages of the Westminster Gazette.

Many sources claim the term was coined earlier ( for example, the Online Etymology Dictionary cites 1984 ) but easy online access to William Safire's article about the term has led many ( such as Oxford English Dictionary ) to believe that August 28, 1989 was its first use.

" The Oxford English Dictionary also cites the use of the word in an advertisement for an unnamed car in The Motor dated 3 November 1920, " The Supreme development of the British super-car.

" The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor.

The Oxford English Dictionary also cites Wycherley as the first user of the phrase " happy-go-lucky ", in 1672.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning " to eat greedily ".

The Oxford English Dictionary cites this usage as far back as 1676.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Globe, 1872, as the earliest verifiable use of flogging a dead horse, where someone is said to have " rehearsed that [...] lively operation known as flogging a dead horse ".

The Oxford English Dictionary cites Lydgate with the earliest record of using the word " talent " in reference to a gifted state of natural ability.

The Coot is long and weighs, and is largely black except for the white facial shield ( which gave rise to the phrase " as bald as a coot ", which the Oxford English Dictionary cites in use as early as 1430 ).

The featherless shield gave rise to the expression " as bald as a coot ," which the Oxford English Dictionary cites in use as early as 1430.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites this word as evolving slowly through roughly the last third of the 20th century, with the first cited reference being poet Jaime Carrero using neorriqueño in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining neoyorquino and puertorriqueño.

The Oxford English Dictionary also cites an alternative Catalan definition that describes soot or a black smear, or a Portuguese root ( the Portuguese word máscara means ‘ mask ’, but a similar word, mascarra, means dark stain or smut ).< ref > There is even strong support for a possible source from the Arabic word maskharah or ‘ buffoon ’.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites a use of the term as early as 1834.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( online edition ) cites Flen flyys in square brackets, since the form fuccant is Anglo-Latin and not strictly speaking English.

The Oxford English Dictionary's entry cites the earliest uses of the word from 1513, where it was found in the phrase widdersyns start my hair, i. e. my hair stood on end.