oed in English
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1. OED, "China"; An Introduction to Pottery.
2. OED Antedating update: looking back at M-R
3. OED describes synonym… See definitions of Charlatanism.
4. This list contains the most common Abbreviations used in the OED
5. The Concise OED gives: cargoes or Cargos [chiefly US]
6. According to OED, complacent meaning Complaisant is an obsolete usage
7. In the OED the word Acceptee has two senses
8. The OED says bedight or Bedighted means equip, apparel, bedeck
9. OED-Cannot definition: the ordinary modern way of writing can not
10. The earliest OED citation for acclimatize (not Acclimatise) is dated 1802
11. The OED gives the earliest citation of “Anecdata” from 1989 (Figure 1)
12. The OED says Chuffed is originally military slang, and has both meanings
13. Attrition does give Attritive /əˈtraɪtɪv/ but OED notes this as a rare word.
14. A huge find for the OED – a startling Antedating for partner meaning ‘spouse’ Revised entries began being updated in OED Online in 2000, and have been released in quarterly batches ever since
15. The noun “Croak” entered English in the second half of the 16th century, according to OED citations
16. Murray himself suggested that 75% of OED main lemmas might prove Antedatable, although he was confident that in most Medical Terminology 1 547- 1612 and the OED cases the time-span of the revisions would be small
17. The word "Apprompt" is an archaic, Anglo-Norman adaptation from Old French (OED)
18. "In early times the Colophon gave the information now given on the title page" [OED].
19. The OED has two definitions for "Altarist," both through quotations: "1753 CHAMBERS Cycl
20. ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: “Appropriacy” isn’t listed at all in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the biggest, baddest dictionary of all
21. "Probably more or less of a conscious archaism since the 17th c." [OED] Related: Bewrayed; Bewraying.
22. According to the entry in the OED, Cannot is the ordinary modern way of writing can not The historical illustrations given for the negative in the OED shows Cannot, can not, and even canot, as well as the contraction can’t: ?a1400 Cursor M
23. When the adjective “Blowsy” showed up in the 1700s, it meant “dishevelled, frowzy, slatternly,” according to the OED
24. 'Bemourn' is not in Webster's 3rd, and OED lists it as obsolete, with the last citation in 1622
25. According to the OED the word Bibliomancy means “divination by books, or by verses of the Bible” and was first recorded in 1753.
26. The OED shows Baddeste and baddyst as Middle English forms and Baddest as being in use from the sixteenth century onwards
27. Although OED might be showing a slight preference for 'of', with its only one example of 'Analogue to': '1859 Owen Classif
28. One, fubar supposedly standing for "fu**ed up beyond all recognition" actually has made it into the OED along with snafu.
29. The OED has an entry for “Besmottered,” labelled as obsolete and rare, Chaucer being the earliest source, and no form without “be’” being known
30. The OED cites, “She Ahoys the schooner.” Alexander Graham Bell suggested “ahoy!” as the standard telephone greeting, but it didn’t catch on — …
31. OED ‘There were no exclusion zones, no censorings, no Blindfoldings, except for the absence of two famous four-letter (sexual) words
32. Cisgender first found legitimacy among lexicographers last summer, when the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the word, which OED traced to the late 1990s.
33. (OED) says that bumf, also spelled Bumph, is short for bum-fodder, and defines it as "toilet-paper; hence, paper (esp
34. [48] The figure is from the OED, so some of the entries will be potentially Antedatable, although many remaining within the Early Modern period
35. Both the NOAD and the OED define Blueish simply as "spelling variant of bluish." (See also bluish on the Oxford Living Dictionaries.)
36. Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of working with the OED as a consultant on a set of new Bermudian English entries
37. The very name of the article, " vanavsos ", is incorrect-- the Greek term has a standard English equivalent, " Banausic " ( see OED )
38. • To Christ/God ich þe Biteche • God bless (you) • God save you (5) predicting seeing each other again • See you – The OED says: “colloq
39. According to the OED, the word Curiouser was coined by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland in 1865, as the phrase "Curiouser and Curiouser"
40. According to the OED, the earliest use of the terms bootlick, meaning to toady, and Bootlicker, referring to a person who does the same, is from 1846
41. Note: 93 According to the OED, a Cudgel is a "short thick stick used as a weapon; a club." The Revelation of Jesus Christ
42. In fact, the OED cites this phrase only, and does not treat Curiouser as a word unto itself; the phrase has the meaning "increasingly strange".
43. The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
44. While the addition of this batch of words is particularly exciting for me as a Bermudian, it is also a landmark moment for the OED and for World English enthusiasts
45. "In contrast to the simple vb., in which the northern seek has displaced the southern seech, in the compound Beseech has become the standard form" [OED]
46. In olden days, the term was spelled as arbitrement, subsequently the term was Latinized to Arbitrament, which the OED notes has been the accepted spelling since about 1830.
47. The Shorter OED doesn't give Adaption, as @ig0774 says.It'll be in the Complete, though, because it's definitely a valid word.But I certainly agree with others, adaptation is to be preferred
48. Ambuscade (n.) 1580s, "act of lying concealed for the purpose of attacking by surprise," essentially a variant form of ambush (q.v.), "now more formal as a military term" [OED]
49. First citations Antedatable from Malory and Wyatt have a significant tendency to peak around the Elizabethan era, and Dr Schafer's graph of the chronological distribution of OED sources shows 448 REVIEWS
50. Alterity, defined by the OED as "The state of being other or different; diversity, 'otherness,'" defies a simple definition because it contains concepts like difference and otherness within itself