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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.

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* 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:

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as " The department of theological science concerned with ‘ the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and hell ’.
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 ".
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term " Kung-fu " as " a primarily unarmed Chinese martial art resembling karate.
" The 2009 Random House Dictionary states the word is offensive, and the 2009 Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines it as derogatory in nature.
The first occurrence in English of " ontology " as recorded by the OED ( Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 ) appears in Nathaniel Bailey's dictionary of 1721, which defines ontology as ' an Account of being in the Abstract ' - though, of course, such an entry indicates the term was already in use at the time.
Dictionary definitions of xenophobia include: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries ( Oxford Dictionaries ), unreasonable fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign ( Merriam-Webster ) The Dictionary of Psychology defines it as " a fear of strangers ".
Notably, the Oxford English Dictionary does not credit a derivation from " caedere ", and defines Caesarean birth as " the delivery of a child by cutting through the walls of the abdomen when delivery cannot take place in the natural way, as was done in the case of Julius Cæsar ".
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a cemetery as a " burial-ground generally ; now esp.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a double entendre as especially being used to " convey an indelicate meaning.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines logistics as " the branch of military science relating to procuring, maintaining and transporting material, personnel and facilities.
" However, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines logistics as " the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies " and the Oxford Dictionary online defines it as, " the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation :" Another dictionary definition is " the time-related positioning of resources.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines five meanings of the noun barbarian, including an obsolete Barbary usage.
* The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines a high-rise as " a building having many storeys ".
The Oxford English Dictionary, citing the use of the term in a 1946 New York Times report on the destroyed city of Hiroshima, defines ground zero as " that part of the ground situated immediately under an exploding bomb, especially an atomic one.
The dictionary Oxford defines it as " money granted by state, public body, etc., to keep down the prices of commodities, etc .”.
In the context of warrants, the Oxford Companion to American Law defines probable cause as " information sufficient to warrant a prudent person's belief that the wanted individual had committed a crime ( for an arrest warrant ) or that evidence of a crime or contraband would be found in a search ( for a search warrant )".
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the basic meaning of the term paradigm as " a pattern or model, an exemplar ".
A standard work, " The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ", defines infallibility as ' Inability to err in teaching revealed truth '.

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