Crossword clues for ashmolean
ashmolean
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Ashmole (1617–1692), celebrated English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist, whose cabinet of curiosities became the basis of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean%20Museum in Oxford.
Usage examples of "ashmolean".
The founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, consorting with alchemists and astrologers, was treasuring the manuscripts of the late pious Dr.
The young lady is all that we shall have left, and the mop and duster of the last Ahnira or Loizy will be stared at by generations of Bridgets and Noras as that famous head and foot of the lost bird are stared at in the Ashmolean Museum.
After breakfast he would set out from 50 St Johns Street to the New English Dictionary work-room, which was in the Old Ashmolean building in nearby Broad Street There, in what he called that great dusty workshop, that brownest of brown studies, a small group of experts laboured away at producing the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever to be compiled.