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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Literature
Length:
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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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Length:
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
Subject:
Literature
Length:
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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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
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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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
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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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
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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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
63 words

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

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Winifred Bauer

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature
Length:
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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