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 term " Lollard " refers to the followers of John Wycliffe, a prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 for criticism of the Church, especially his doctrine on the Eucharist.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the first mention of the word " White Russian " in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's Oakland Tribune on 21 November 1965.

Although it generally refers to religious beliefs that are accepted regardless of evidence, they can refer to acceptable opinions of philosophers or philosophical schools, public decrees, or issued decisions of political authorities .< ref >, " Dogma " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane.

Morganatic, already in use in English by 1727 ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ), is derived from the medieval Latin morganaticus from the Late Latin phrase matrimonium ad morganaticam and refers to the gift given by the groom to the bride on the morning after the wedding, morning gift, i. e. dower.

The term " consumerism " was first used in 1915 to refer to " advocacy of the rights and interests of consumers " ( Oxford English Dictionary ) but in this article the term " consumerism " refers to the sense first used in 1960, " emphasis on or preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods " ( Oxford English Dictionary ).

The title refers to student accommodation in an imaginary Oxford college.

Originally the term was translated landskip which the Oxford English Dictionary refers to as the corrupt form of the word, gradually to be replaced by landscape.

Readers who interpret the relationship as overtly homosexual quote such lines as the fact that Charles had been " in search of love in those days " when he first met Sebastian, and his finding " that low door in the wall ... which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden " — an image that some interpret as a Freudian metaphor for homosexual sex, though it recurs when Charles is expelled from Brideshead by Lady Marchmain, suggesting it refers more generally to the glamorous world Sebastian represents: " a door had shut, the low door in the wall I had sought and found in Oxford.

In scene 2 of Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia, one character refers to another character who attends Oxford as " Brideshead Regurgitated.

Hawkesbury Junction is also known to regular boaters as Sutton Stop, though strictly this refers to the stop lock, a short distance along the Oxford Canal.

Webster's definition states that the word " regime " refers simply to a form of government, while Oxford English Dictionary defines regime as " a government, especially an authoritarian one ".

Subfusc comes from the Latin for " of a dark / dusky colour ", and refers to the clothes worn with full academic dress in Oxford.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to " a person of European origin living in Algeria during the period of French rule, especially a French person expatriated after Algeria was granted independence in 1962.

In Oxford and Cambridge colleges the term lectureship always refers to such temporary positions ( to be distinguished from ' university lectureships ', which are permanent ); some are very low paid ( as little as £ 6000 p. a.

In James faith refers to sound theology: In Paul it is trust in Jesus and communion with him ( The New Oxford Annotated Bible, p. 1471 ).

It is not clear what the original Saxon settlement was north of, but John Blair, Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, suggested in 2000 at a lecture in Chipping Norton Town Hall that Charlbury to the south, now a smaller town, was in Anglo-Saxon times a more important minster town and that Chipping Norton's " nor -" prefix refers to this geographical and pastoral relationship with Charlbury.

In the United Kingdom, varsity team refers to groups participating in varsity matches in sport or other competitions between rival universities, famously Oxford vs. Cambridge

Banditry refers to the life and practice of bandits which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as " one who is proscribed or outlawed ; hence, a lawless desperate marauder, a brigand: usually applied to members of the organized gangs which infest the mountainous districts of Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, and Turkey.

Because of its history, the term " High Church " also refers to aspects of Anglicanism quite distinct from the Oxford Movement or Anglo-Catholicism.

Smiley was probably born around 1906 ( or 1915 on the revised chronology ) to middle class parents in the South of England, and attended a minor public school and an antiquated Oxford college of no real distinction ( in the 1982 BBC television adaptation of Smiley's People, he refers to himself as a fellow of Lincoln College ), studying modern languages with a particular focus on Baroque German literature.

'" In addition to these mentions, Woolf subtly refers to several of the most prominent intellectuals of the time, and her hybrid name from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge — Oxbridge — has become a well-known term, although she was not the first to use it.

The Oxford English Dictionary considers it unlikely that " stool ball " could have been corrupted into " stobball ".< ref > It suggests instead an etymology of the latter word from " stob " + ball, where " stob " means a stump or stub of wood, and refers to the club used to play the game.