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 origins of Hangman are obscure, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times ," says Tony Augarde, author of " The Oxford Guide to Word Games " ( Oxford University Press ).

However, Oxford Brookes University historian David Nash says the removal of the scene represented " a form of self-censorship " and the Otto sequence " which involved a character representative of extreme forms of Zionism " was cut " in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America.

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy says it is the investigation of the most general and abstract features of the world and the categories with which we think, in order to " lay bare their foundations and presuppositions ".

Chapman describes Oxford as " Rare and most absolute " in form and says he was " of spirit passing great / Valiant and learn ’ d, and liberal as the sun ".

Mark Anderson says it is the same story, and that Oxford having passed through the area that Gonzaga ruled was in some way responsible for Hamlet's play-within-the-play.

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase " tug of war " originally meant " the decisive contest ; the real struggle or tussle ; a severe contest for supremacy ".

The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.

In the spring of 1875 he applied for the Archaeological Travelling Studentship offered by Oxford, but, as he says in a letter to Freeman later in life, he was turned down thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Jowett and Charles Thomas Newton, two Oxford dons having a low opinion of his work there.

The Oxford English Dictionary says ( as its last definition of

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says that it was in the 15th century ( when the Renaissance stirred up new interest in ancient Rome ) that " Pontifex Maximus " became a regular title of honour for Popes.

Older books about Alfred the Great include the legend, for example: Jacob Abbott's 1849 Alfred the Great says that " One of the greatest and most important of the measures which Alfred adopted for the intellectual improvement of his people was the founding of the great University of Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) says that the word puss is common to several Germanic languages, usually as a call name for the cat — not a synonym for cat, as it is in English.

In The Ghosts of Oxford Street he says Charles Clore ( who bought Selfridges ) became his mother's lover.

Various dates are given, with Ian Walker, the biographer of Harold arguing for between 1053 and 1055, but H. E. J. Cowdrey, who wrote Robert's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, says on 26 May in either 1052 or 1055.

Murray ( the historian of the later Oxford English Dictionary ) says Webster's unabridged edition of 1864 " acquired an international fame.

In his Appeal of Injured Innocence Fuller says that he was once deputed to carry a petition to the king at Oxford.

In November 1635 he had been nominated by Laud to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, where, says Wood ( Athen.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says " When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor.

( The Oxford English Dictionary says " Often called by English writers in the 19th century ".

Regarding the word " Mitzachek " ( again in Gen. 21: 9 ) The Jewish Study Bible by Oxford University Press says this word in this particular context is associated with ; " Playing is another pun on Isaac's name ( cf.

: G. J. Warnock's Foreword – Having taken a course from Austin on this topic at Oxford in 1947, Sir Geoffrey Warnock ( 1923-95 ) says he put Austin's fragmentary lecture notes into sentence form, with the help of class notes from later students of the course, and claims to relate faithfully Austin's " argument " though not his exact wording.