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Usage examples of dictionary.

Jones was not an Egyptologist, but a specialist in Assyriology who had come from California to work on the great Assyrian dictionary.

But after the car carrying Monk, Grace, Bill and old Benjy vanished, Renny spoke for approximately two minutes without using a word that could be found in a dictionary.

In addition to exegetical studies on Buddhism and Confucianism, they compiled dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference-type materials that provided the groundwork for nearly all subsequent scholarly activity in premodern Japan.

He was a tiny man, under five feet, and though suffering the continuing ills of the hypochondriac he had translated all of Plato and become a living dictionary of ancient philosophies by translating the body of Egyptian wisdom before devouring the work of the sages from Aristotle through the Alexandrians, Confucianists, Zoroastrians.

On referring to the great encyclopaedical and bibliographical dictionary, edited by Fluegel, it will be found, under No.

Having made its debut appearance in the dictionary in 1929, this rather arcane notion of foreplay has remained strangely static.

Or, to put it in a way that a dictionary writer might like better, Phariseeism is the belief that a man or woman can lay claim to moral superiority by certain austere habits of behavior, plain dress, and frugal living.

Gilbert Cooper related, that soon after the publication of his Dictionary, Garrick being asked by Johnson what people said of it, told him, that among other animadversions, it was objected that he cited authorities which were beneath the dignity of such a work, and mentioned Richardson.

One essential matter, however, I understood was necessary to be previously settled, which was obtaining such an addition to his income, as would be sufficient to enable him to defray the expence in a manner becoming the first literary character of a great nation, and independent of all his other merits, the Authour of THE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

There a computer, codenamed Dictionary, searches for those words and numbers among the millions of messages passing through the intercept antennas.

You get the dictionary and read about the condors of the Andes Mountains.

We spoke of Rolt, to whose Dictionary of Commerce Dr. Johnson wrote the Preface.

I learnt from Dr. James, whom I helped in writing the proposals for his Dictionary and also a little in the Dictionary itself.

Dictionary itself, or any other work, had conceived such a reverence for him, that he urgently begged Dr. Burney to give him the cover of the first letter he had received from him, as a relick of so estimable a writer.

They were innately unwarlike, were the Indigenes: trees would sing and frogs would write dictionaries sooner than the Indigenes would begin raising their hands in violence.