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.

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:

Furthermore, while the First Folio shows traces of a dialect identical to Shakespeare's, the Earl of Oxford, raised in Essex, spoke an East Anglian dialect.

The College traces its descent from the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students, founded in 1868 to offer university education at Oxford without the costs of college membership.

( Note that the Oxford English Dictionary traces the word " leadership " in English only as far back as the 19th century.

One of Knox's most famous works, though currently out of print, Taking as its subject the history of Oxford from the Reformation to shortly before World War II, it traces the disintegration of a common culture though the conversations of the dons of Simon Magus, a fictional college, first in 1588, and then by fifty year intervals until 1938.

The words pentacle and pentagram ( a five-point unicursal star ) are essentially synonymous, according to the Online Oxford English Dictionary ( 2007 revision ), which traces the etymology through both French and Italian back to Latin, but notes that in Middle French the word " pentacle " was used to refer to any talisman.

( The Oxford English Dictionary traces the phrase " corporate culture " as far back as " 1966 Acad.

However, the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, note that priah was probably added by the rabbis, in order to " prevent the possibility of obliterating the traces of circumcision ".

Book Three traces Peekay's life in Northern Rhodesia ( present-day Zimbabwe ) where he takes on a dangerous ( but lucrative ) job as a " grizzly man " in the mines in order to build up his body for his boxing, and to earn enough money to pay his way through three years at Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the word to the middle of the 18th century when, in 1758, Hannah Glasse described how " to make Paco-Lilla, or India Pickle ".

The school traces its roots back to 1868 when Felix Slade ( 1788 – 1868 ) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London, where six studentships were endowed.

In the article that he has entitled The Pastoral Provision for Roman Catholics in the U. S. A. an account of the origins of this provision, The Reverend Jack D. Barker traces the origins of the demand for such an arrangement to the Oxford Movement in nineteenth-century England and more immediately to developments in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the 1970s, when the church changed its canons regarding divorce, refused to take a strong public stand against abortion, ordained women to the diaconate and made many changes to its Book of Common Prayer.

Oxfam Canada traces its history to 1963, when the British-based Oxford Committee for Famine Relief sought to establish a Canadian branch.

The entry on cabullus in the Oxford Latin Dictionary ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985 reprinting ), p. 246, does not give a probable origin, and merely compare Old Bulgarian kobyla and Old Russian komoń < sub > b </ sub >.</ ref > From caballus arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate to the ( French-derived ) English cavalier: Old Italian cavaliere, Italian cavallo, Spanish caballero, French chevalier, Portuguese cavaleiro, Romanian cavaler.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning " to gird up ; to tuck up ( the skirts ) round the body ", which is apparently of Scandinavian origin.

A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".

* Klein, Ernest, Dr., A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language: Dealing with the origin of words and their sense development thus illustrating the history and civilization of culture, Elsevier, Oxford, 7th ed., 2000

The dao / dao " the way " English word of Chinese origin has three meanings, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

( 1992 ) From Sails to Satellites: the origin and development of navigational science, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-856387-6

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology of the name Puck is " unsettled ", and it is not clear even whether its origin is Germanic ( cf.

The notion that meringue was invented in the Swiss town of Meiringen and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini in the 18th century is contested ; the Oxford English Dictionary states that the French word is of unknown origin.

No finds suggest the origin of Anglo-Saxon occupation in Thanet, or even Kent-Dorchester-on-Thames ( Oxford ) is a far more likely candidate of that, as is East Anglia.

The Oxford English Dictionary considers it a " fanciful " coinage, but an 1893 speculation reported in the Chicago Tribune as to the origin of the word as one of its early attestations:

While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of " Mahomet ", alternative etymologies have also been proposed:

The word is ultimately of Turkic origin, more specifically from Tatar according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from a word meaning " fortress ".

The origin of the 400 metres hurdles also lies in Oxford, where ( around 1860 ) a competition was held over 440 yards and twelve 1. 06 m high wooden barriers were placed along the course.

Just as the hurdling events, the steeplechase finds its origin in student competition in Oxford, England.

The metallic chyak call may be the origin of the jack part of the common name, but this is not supported by the Oxford English Dictionary.

Canadian Oxford lists it as a 20th century word of unknown origin.

The schottische is considered by The Oxford Companion to Music to be a kind of slower polka, with continental-European origin.

The Oxford Companion to the Body dates the origin of the pubic wig to the 1450s.

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.

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 dates the origin of the word to 1834.

The verb form " stenting " was used for centuries to describe the process of stiffening garments ( a usage long obsolete, per the Oxford English Dictionary ) and some believe this to be the origin.

The origin of the word spaniel is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as coming from the Old French word espaigneul which meant " Spanish ( dog )"; this in turn originated from the Latin Hispaniolus which simply means " Spanish ".