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Académie Française

Académie Française  

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A French literary academy with a constant membership of forty, responsible for the standard form of the French language and for compiling and revising a definitive dictionary of the French language. ...
Antoine Furetière

Antoine Furetière  

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(1619–88).Satirist and lexicographer. A member of the Parisian legal bourgeoise, he lived all his life in the capital, acquiring a sinecure as an abbot in 1662. In 1648 he ...
Bernardo Bellini

Bernardo Bellini  

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(1792–1876).Poet and lexicographer, who studied at Pavia and then taught literature in various cities, also founding a printing-firm in Cremona in 1820. He wrote narrative poems and tragedies. He ...
chemistry

chemistry  

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The study of the elements and the compounds they form. Chemistry is mainly concerned with effects that depend on the outer electrons in atoms. See biochemistry; geochemistry; inorganic chemistry; ...
Dialect

Dialect  

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The dialects of Italy are not dialects of Italian: they are neither aspects of Italian, nor are they derived from it, because they existed before the Italian language came into ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

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Current Version:
2003
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Literature
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198 words

of Irish developed from early glossaries such as Sanas Chormaic, c. ad 900 [see Cormac mac Cuileannáin].

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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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2005
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
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2,624 words

In eighteenth-century Europe, the dictionary became a genre of considerable importance in society, culture, and commerce. It was admired for

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

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Current Version:
2006
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Literature
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3,042 words

Texts no doubt were glossed as soon as English began to be written with the Roman alphabet, which means perhaps

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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2005
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Literature
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437 words

involving the vernacular were chiefly Latin-Italian until, in the 16th c., the flourishing of vernacular literature and printing encouraged the

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

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2005
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Literature
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1,778 words

[See also Encylopedias].

1. Medieval and Renaissance

The origins of French lexicography lie in bilingual French–Latin glossaries of the

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Winifred Bauer

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

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2006
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Literature
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905 words
of English all contain at least a few New Zealand words, though the information provided rarely gives a complete picture of their usage in New Zealand. Thus the first edition of the ... ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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2010
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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
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92 words

The first medieval dictionary, Elementarium doctrinae rudimentum (c.1053), was derived from preceding *glossaries and *encyclopedias.

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World Encyclopedia

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2004
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Encyclopedias
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63 words

Book that lists in alphabetical order, words and their definitions. A dictionary may be general or subject oriented. In the

Émile Littré

Émile Littré  

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(1801–81)French scholar, philosopher, and lexicographer, who began work on his great dictionary of the French language in 1846. It was published in four volumes (1863–72), with a supplementary volume ...
encyclopedias

encyclopedias  

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It was the Enlightenment which developed the modern encyclopedia. The first original Italian encyclopedia of note is the Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso sacro-profano of Gianfranco Pivati ...
Francesco Redi

Francesco Redi  

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(1626–1697) Italian biologist, physician, and poetRedi, who was born at Arezzo in Italy, studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Pisa, graduating in 1647. He was employed as personal ...
François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais

François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais  

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(1632–1713).French poet and grammarian, active in the preparation of the first dictionary of the Académie Française, and author of a Traité de la grammaire française (1705).
French

French  

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Among the many territories conquered by speakers of Latin during the creation of the Roman Empire was a large area occupied predominantly by Celts, and known then as Gallia (later ...
German literature

German literature  

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The model of a Renaissance revival of the forms and ideals of classical literature is of limited usefulness in understanding German literature of the early modern period. The humanist tradition ...
Grammar

Grammar  

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The first vernacular grammar was written exceptionally early (1437–41) by Alberti. He wished to show that contemporary cultured Florentine could be analysed in the same way as Latin, but his ...

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