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 defines racism as the “ belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races ” and the expression of such prejudice, while the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.

His last public statement was dictated to his daughter Helen in reply to receiving the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford's " sorrow and affection ": " There is no expression of Christian sympathy that I value more than that of the ancient University of Oxford, the God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford.

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.

A premature expression of Lutheran views is said to have caused his departure from Oxford and even his imprisonment, but the records are silent on these sufferings which do not harmonize with his appointment as master of the royal foundation at Eton.

* The Oxford English Dictionary includes fire and flet ( corruptly fleet ): ' fire and house-room '; an expression often occurring in wills, etc.

This has given rise to a traditional Oxford expression: ' to look on someone like the Imp looks over Lincoln ' as well as giving rise to the title of the college's undergraduate newspaper: The Lincoln Imp.

Bishop Chase retired in 1832 and was succeeded by Charles Pettit McIlvaine, a leading advocate Evangelicalism which called upon the Episcopal Church to turn from the more anglo-catholic reforms of the Oxford Movement and return to a purer Protestant expression in the Church.

Although the Oxford English Dictionary says the expression " shiver my timbers " probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful ( 1835 ), the phrase actually appeared in print as early as 1795, in a serial publication called " Tomahawk, or Censor General ,", which gives an " extract of a new MS tragedy called ' Opposition '.

His father-in-law made him several large loans, and Elizabeth granted Oxford a £ 1, 000 annuity, to be continued at her pleasure or until he could be provided for otherwise.

For this he had to give up the leadership of Balliol College, though he could continue to live at Oxford.

Oxford and the episcopate were later blamed by the Curia, which charged them with so neglecting their duty that " the breaking of the evil fiend into the English sheepfold " could be noticed in Rome before it was in England.

Oxford, as everywhere in the country, was filled with bereaved women, but it may have been more noticeable in university towns where a whole year's intake could be wiped out in France in less than an hour.

Facsimile of the first page of Macbeth from the First Folio, published in 1623Scholars also cite an entertainment seen by King James at Oxford in the summer of 1605 that featured three " sibyls " like the weird sisters ; Kermode surmises that Shakespeare could have heard about this and alluded to it with the weird sisters.

Some mainstream academics also argue the Oxford theory is based on simple snobbishness: that anti-Stratfordians reject the idea that the son of a mere tradesman could write the plays and poems of Shakespeare.

Looney rejected the play altogether, arguing that its style and the " dreary negativism " it promoted were inconsistent with Shakespeare's " essentially positivist " soul, and so could not have been written by Oxford.

However, the play's principal source, the Spanish Diana Enamorada, would not be translated into French or English until 1578, meaning that someone basing a play on it that early could only have read it in the original Spanish, and there is no evidence that Oxford spoke this language.

Oxfordians, such as Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, believe Shakespeare created such a role for the 13th Earl because it was the easiest way Edward de Vere could have " advertised his loyalty to the Tudor Queen " and remind her of " the historic part borne by the Earls of Oxford in defeating the usurpers and restoring the Lancastrians to power ".

Although born in Oxford, Richard could speak no English ; he was an educated man who composed poetry and wrote in Limousin ( lenga d ' òc ) and also in French.

In April 1970, Peter Pearson and Martin Bobrow at the MRC Population Genetics Unit in Oxford and Canino Vosa at the University of Oxford reported fluorescent " male " sex chromatin bodies in the nuclei of interphase cells in buccal smears treated with quinacrine dihydrochloride, which could be used to screen for Y chromosome aneuploidies like 47, XYY.

When the American War of Independence deprived Oxford of a valuable market for its bibles, this lease became too risky a proposition, and the Delegates were forced to offer shares in the Press to those who could take " the care and trouble of managing the trade for our mutual advantage.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

He gained the Senior Oxford Certificate in 1929, but could not afford entrance to university and instead sat the civil service Entrance Exam.

Firstly, he chose to use a broad gauge of about to allow for the possibility of large wheels outside the bodies of the rolling stock which could give smoother running at high speeds ; secondly he selected a route, north of the Marlborough Downs, which had no significant towns but which offered potential connections to Oxford and Gloucester.

Then at the end of May he was told that Oxford was short of provisions and could not hold out long.

" Unity's sister, Deborah, rebutted by stating that the entourage that returned with Unity consisted of herself and their mother and although she doesn't remember them being searched upon return, that Unity " could not walk, talked with difficulty and was a changed personality, like one who had had a stroke ", and that she has detailed records from Professor Cairns, neurosurgeon at the Nuffield Hospital in Oxford, on her condition, including X-rays showing the bullet.

St Hugh ’ s and Oxford are inextricable from my happiest memories, those that I could draw on when the beauty of the world seemed dim.

The modern history of the college in its present form began in 1929 when St Peter's Hall was founded by Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool, who was concerned at the rising cost of education in the older universities in Britain, and projected St Peter's as a College where promising students, who might otherwise be deterred by the costs of College life elsewhere, could obtain an Oxford education.

Taylor lived in Disley, Cheshire for a while, where Dylan Thomas ( who was his first wife's lover ) was his guest ; he later provided Thomas with a cottage in Oxford so that he could recover from a breakdown.

During the Oxford mutiny this was confirmed when Parliament acquired a letter from a Royalist prisoner in the Tower of London to Lord Cottington, and advisor in exile with Charles II in France, which suggested that the Royalists should finance the Levellers, as a method by which Charles could be restored to the throne.

In 1782, they obtained an agreement from the Oxford Canal Company that they would complete the route to the River Thames at Oxford, one from the Coventry Canal that they would extend their canal from Atherstone to Fazeley, and agreed that they would complete the Coventry Canal's route from Fazeley as far as Whittington, as the Coventry Canal company could not finance the whole route.