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The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first recorded use of the phrase, as a simile, as The New York Times on June 20, 1959: " Financing schools has become a problem about equal to having an elephant in the living room.
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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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In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".
The Oxford English Dictionary offers no etymology, but gives examples dating back to the 16th century.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, gives a Middle English quotation making this contrast, from as early as 1400:
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.
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) gives 1771 as the date of the earliest written use of the word in English.
However the Oxford English Dictionary gives this etymology " no claim to consideration ".
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as " In 18th c. tattaow, tattow.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of teil as Latin tilia and Old French ( 13-15th c .) til.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.
A charter of Henry II gives the name as Hestune, meaning " enclosed settlement ", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of Staines, between the ancient Roman road to Bath, and the Uxbridge Road to Oxford.
The American Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives plurals in the order " Narcissus ", " Narcissuses ", and " Narcissi ", but the British Compact Oxford English Dictionary lists just " Narcissi " and " Narcissuses ".
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.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives a chronology of the term, starting in 1915.
The Oxford English Dictionary ( 1989 ) gives the meaning as: " The action of ' interning '; confinement within the limits of a country or place.
The Second Edition Oxford English Dictionary gives the history of the word as obscure, but suggests an apparent derivation from the Greek prefix penta-( five ) combined with the Latin suffix-culum ( diminutive ).
A current draft Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gives only the derivation penta + culum, and defines it as a pentagram, especially enclosed in a circle ; a talisman inscribed with such a shape ; or any similar magic symbol ; pentacle and the Middle French pentacol are considered separate and unrelated words.
* Jasper Charles's cousin, who gives him advice about student life at Oxford, which Charles ignores.
) In the Oxford version Oliver is reconciled in the end, he gives Roland his death-blow by accident, his eyes blinded by wounds.
The name haček ( with no long mark ) appears in most English dictionaries ; the Oxford English Dictionary gives its earliest citation as 1953.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, first published in 1951, interpreted the name as " Royal bell-shaped hill " and the later Oxford Companion to Names ( 2002 ) also gives that as the meaning.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest entry as being from Bristol in 1500, but there were bager ( s ) gates at York in 1243 and in Lincoln by 1252.
The plan was very accurate and clearly gives the name Colmanhedge Lane to this major route across the fields described as “ The Waye from Vxbridge to London ” ( Oxford St ) to what is now Cockspur St.
According to the Dartmoor National Park, the word ' clapper ' derives ultimately from an Anglo-Saxon word, cleaca, meaning ' bridging the stepping stones '; the Oxford English Dictionary gives the intermediate Medieval Latin form clapus, claperius, " of Gaulish origin ", with an initial meaning of " a pile of stones ".
The Oxford English Dictionary gives a derivation from Old French cocatris, from medieval Latin calcatrix, a translation of the Greek ichneumon, meaning tracker.
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