Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to " Messrs. the Great Unwashed " in Lytton's Paul Clifford ( 1830 ), as the earliest instance.

20th century Pentecostalism was not the earliest instance of " speaking in tongues " in church history, but earlier examples are few ; in church history and writing after the New Testament, it had never been regarded as orthodox until the rise of Pentecostalism.

The Ebers papyrus also provides our earliest possible documentation of ancient awareness of tumors, but ancient medical terminology being badly understood, cases Ebers 546 and 547 for instance may refer to simple swellings.

The earliest instance where pr -` 3 is used specifically to address the ruler is in a letter to Amenhotep IV ( Akhenaten ), who reigned c. 1353-1336 BC, which is addressed to ' Pharaoh, all life, prosperity, and health !.

The earliest known instance of such an import was King of Na Gold Seal given by Emperor Guangwu of Han to a Yamato emissary in 57 AD.

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

This is the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game.

The earliest instance of a licensed reprisal recorded in England was in the year 1295 under the reign of Edward I.

Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting the earliest instance of wind harnessing on land.

The earliest recorded instance of the form is in the Council of Elvira ( c. 306 ), and thereafter it became the common method of cutting off heretics ; for example, the Synod of Gangra ( c. 340 ) pronounced that Manicheanism was anathema.

The earliest known instance of U. S. wartime aerial reconnaissance was carried out from Taylor's Tavern at Seven Corners by aeronaut Thaddeus S. C. Lowe of the Union Army Balloon Corps.

" The earliest instance of this was in the show's first season in 1971.

The earliest development is somewhat shrouded in mystery ; for instance Flanagan & Nutting's 1835 catalog mentions a ' Penstemon Hybridum ' but does not describe it.

* The earliest known instance of hacktivism as documented by Julian Assange is as follows: Hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when DOE, HEPNET and SPAN ( NASA ) connected VMS machines world wide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm.

The earliest documented instance of incense utilization comes from the ancient Chinese, who employed incense composed of herbs and plant products ( such as cassia, cinnamon, styrax, sandalwood, amongst others ) as a component of numerous formalized ceremonial rites.

The earliest known instance of the phrase Vicarius Filii Dei is in the Donation of Constantine, now dated between the eighth and the ninth centuries AD.

The Prince's own message contains the earliest written instance in which the Japanese archipelago is named " Nihon ," literally, sun-origin.

The earliest identity "= cw4t7abs " ( antiorp @ tezcat. com ) surfaced in 1995 on mailing lists and newsgroups relating to electronic music production ( for instance, the Kurzweil K2000 music synthesizer ) and related Usenet groups ( rec. music. makers. synth ), rendering them speechless with spiralling messages saturated in a dense fogginess of code-poetry, abstract ASCII art as well as exceptionally focused personal engagement.

It also includes the earliest instance of The Lion, the Bear and the Fox ( 60 ) in a language other than Greek.

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

The earliest instance of the phrase found in print dates to a letter written June 8, 1891, published June 13, 1891, The National Observer p. 93 (- 94 ):

Although the earliest extant Chinese maps date to the 4th century BC, and tujing since the Qin ( 221 – 206 BC ) or Han dynasties, this was the first known instance in China when the textual information of tujing became the primary element over the drawn illustrations.

The Prince's own message contains the earliest written instance in which the Japanese archipelago is named " Nihon ", literally, sun-origin.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

" The contains a simple and brief definition for the term bodhisattva, which is also the earliest known Mahāyāna definition.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

" Since the term " CPU " is generally defined as a device for software ( computer program ) execution, the earliest devices that could rightly be called CPUs came with the advent of the stored-program computer.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

The earliest sources do not use the term " West Saxon ".

The earliest known publication of the term mouse as a computer pointing device is in Bill English's 1965 publication " Computer-Aided Display Control ".

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

The earliest attested use of this term is on a wooden slat, or mokkan, that was unearthed in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture in 1998 and dated back to the reign of Emperor Temmu and Empress Jitō.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.

The earliest known use in print of the term " trick or treat " appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada: Hallowe ' en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun.