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ideological, a.: OED Word of the Day

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1797 Monthly Mag. III. 286 Tracy..exhibits..a summary table of such ideological truths, as he conceives to be evident.

auxiliary, a. and n.: OED Word of the Day

20 hours 33 min ago
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1601 R. JOHNSON Kingd. & Commw. 193 They maintaine three sorts of soldiers..the third are Auxiliaries, which serue for pay.

coup, n.1: OED Word of the Day

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1400 Destr. Troy 1237 The kyng with the caupe [was] caste to {th}e ground.

meek, adj. and n.: OED Word of the Day

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: ?c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2501 E{ygh}{ygh}{th}err [sc. Mary and Joseph] wass wi{th}{th} o{th}err mec.

artisanal, adj.: OED Word of the Day

Sun, 03/07/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1939 W. J. BLAKE Elem. Marxian Econ. Theory xxxi. 377 In so far as there are feudal and artisanal survivals in capitalism, the ravages of its peculiar diseases are diminished for those small areas.

ounce, n.1: OED Word of the Day

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) IV. x. 104 Aelc wifmon haefde ane yndsan goldes & an pund seolfres.

assign, v.: OED Word of the Day

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1297 R. GLOUC. 314 Wat thyng he adde assygned ys tueye bretheren al so.

cheater: OED Word of the Day

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1330 Pol. Songs (1839) 338 At justices, at shirreves, cheiturs, and chaunceler.

exsolve,, v.: OED Word of the Day

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1942 Econ. Geol. XXXVII. 348 Solid solutions of each in the other exist above 475{degrees}C. and exsolve on cooling.

mini-system, n.: OED Word of the Day

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1970 G. G. UNRUH & W. M. ALEXANDER Innovations in Secondary Educ. iii. 114 There is a growing body of commercially produced materials{em}learning systems, minisystems, learning packages, learning kits, instructional programs, as they are variously called.

daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly: OED Word of the Day

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1573 TUSSER Husb. xliii. (1878) 95 Herbes, branches, and flowers, for windowes and pots..7 Daffadondillies.

presser, n.: OED Word of the Day

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1503 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 296 Unum magnum le buke presser.

skeeve, v.: OED Word of the Day

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1986 J. FRIEDMAN Inside Peeps in Tales of Times Square (1993) 68 I'm terrified to get touched by a floor mop. They skeeve me out.

cruise, n.: OED Word of the Day

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1706 PHILLIPS (ed. Kersey), Cruise or Cruising, the Course of a Ship.

lumber, n.1: OED Word of the Day

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1552 HULOET, Baggage, lumbor, or trumperye, scruta.

influential, a. (n.): OED Word of the Day

Wed, 02/24/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1570 DEE Math. Pref. biijb, Mans body, and all other Elementall bodies, are altered, disposed, ordred..by the Influentiall working of the Sunne, Mone, and the other Starres and Planets.

animal spirits: OED Word of the Day

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1543 TRAHERON Vigo's Chirurg. Interpr., Physitions teache that there ben thre kindes of spirites, animal, vital, and naturall. The animal spirite hath his seate in the brayne, and is spredde in to all the bodye by synnowes, gyuyng facultie of mouynge, and felynge. It is called animal, bycause it is the first instrument of the soule, whych the Latins call animam.

microsatellite, n.: OED Word of the Day

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 49 943 In the second satellite chromosome pair she [sc. Cauderon] found a microsatellite.

atone, v.: OED Word of the Day

Sun, 02/21/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1555 Fardle Facions I. vi. 92 Those battayles are attoned by the women..For when they be ones comen into the middle..the battaile sodenly ceaseth.

equip, v.: OED Word of the Day

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1523 WOLSEY in Fiddes Wolsey II. 107, 50,000 soldiers largelie and plentifullye furnished eskipped and trymed.