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 word is defined by the Compact Oxford English Dictionary as " an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact ".

As defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, pansexuality " encompasses all kinds of sexuality ; not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regards to gender or practice ".

However, this distribution of meanings between the two terms used to be precisely inverse at the time they were coined: The Oxford English Dictionary defined “ racialism ” as “ belief in the superiority of a particular race ” and gives a 1907 quote as the first recorded use.

RP is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as " the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England ", although some have argued that it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

It became an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1985, defined as " discrimination against or exploitation of animal species by human beings, based on an assumption of mankind's superiority.

In the Oxford English Dictionary a mountain is defined as " a natural elevation of the earth surface rising more or less abruptly from the surrounding level and attaining an altitude which, relatively to the adjacent elevation, is impressive or notable.

A physical law or scientific law is, according to the Oxford English dictionary, " a theoretical principle deduced from particular facts, applicable to a defined group or class of phenomena, and expressible by the statement that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions be present.

In Christianity, religious beliefs are defined by the Church .< ref >, " dogma " The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

The Oxford Movement had been inspired in the first place by a rejection of liberalism and latitudinarianism in favour of the traditional faith of the " Church Catholic ", defined by the teachings of the Church Fathers and the common doctrines of the historical eastern and western Christian churches.

The exact significance of the style, which has been used occasionally for other prelates since the middle of the fifth century, is nowhere officially defined but, according to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, the title has been criticized in the Roman Catholic Church as incompatible with its own claims by the See of Rome.

Bloomsbury has no official boundaries, but can be roughly defined as the square bounded by Tottenham Court Road to the west, Euston Road to the north, Gray's Inn Road to the east, and either High Holborn or the thoroughfare formed by New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury Way and Theobalds Road to the south.

It has been informally suggested in folk etymology that it is a shortened form of the word " pusillanimous ", which comes from Latin words meaning " tiny spirit " and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as " showing a lack of courage or determination " or cowardly.

It is defined generally as an even mixture of white and pigmented hairs that does not " gray out " or fade as the animal ages .< ref name = OEDroan >" roan, a. and n. 1 " Oxford English Dictionary.

The early Oxford English Dictionary ( with citations from 1720 to 1854 ) still defined brig as being either identical to a brigantine, or alternatively, a vessel of similar sail plan to a modern brig.

Harlequinade is a comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as " that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts ".

Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's " course or progress through life ( or a distinct portion of life )".

Omnibenevolence ( from Latin omni-meaning " all ", and benevolent, meaning " good ") is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as " unlimited or infinite benevolence ".

Sphereing is also referred to as Orbing or Zorbing, and Zorbing entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 where it was defined as: " a sport in which a participant is secured inside an inner capsule in a large, transparent ball which is then rolled along the ground or down hills ".

During this time, work in the EGI expanded from the field of population biology to encompass the new field of behavioural ecology, with John Krebs and Nick Davies ( then at Oxford, now Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Cambridge ) co-authoring the textbooks which defined the field.

Mycoprotein is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: " the albuminoid which is the principal constituent of the protoplasm of the cell.

Proscription is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a " decree of condemnation to death or banishment " and is a heavily politically charged word, frequently used to refer to state-approved murder or persecution.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2007 ) does not have an entry for nontheism or non-theism, but it does have an entry for non-theist, defined as " A person who is not a theist ", and an entry for the adjectival non-theistic.

Early editions of the Oxford Companion to Music defined the cancan as " A boisterous and latterly indecorous dance of the quadrille order, exploited in Paris for the benefit of such British and American tourists as will pay well to be well shocked.

In 2003, it was defined to consist of the part of the city lying north and west of a line drawn from the western limit of the city along Dingman Creek, Southdale Road West, Wharncliffe Road South, Commissioners Road East, the Canadian National Railway, the Thames River, Wharncliffe Road North, Oxford Street West and Wonderland Road North.