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Mon, 07/12/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 37 {Th}e soules {th}at comez in {th}at prisoun, Of heom nis no mencion.
Sun, 07/11/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1300 Cursor M. 3345 On morn wit godds beniscon Was mai rebecca lede o ton.
Sat, 07/10/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1658 J. SPENCER Kaina kai Palaia 222 Leud debauched Ministers, whose doctrin and lives are as distant, as the two Polar Lines, cosmographically described on the Globe terrestriall.
Fri, 07/09/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 23, {Th}at perforacion or persyng [L. perforatio] {th}at is made bi crafte is generatiue of virousnez & of felth & of fistle.
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1954 William & Mary Q. 11 180 In the years immediately following the Union, imports averaged a mere 1,450,000 pounds per annum; this had only become 2,500,000 by the mid-'teens.
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1951 White Bk. Aggressive Activities towards Yugoslavia (Yugoslav Min. Foreign Affairs) II. iii. 301 They had instructions to put through the proposed 'D' list in its entirety. They refuse to lift the 'export ban'.
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1325 [see DAZED 1].
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c970 Laws of Edgar Canon 67 (Bosw.) {Ygh}if man hit ariht asmea{th}.
Sun, 07/04/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1591 SYLVESTER Du Bartas I. ii. 1172 Above the Heavn's Star-spangled Canopy.
Sat, 07/03/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 13.. K. Alis. 132 He thenkith to yeilde him his iniquite.
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1669 (title) The nicker nicked; or, the cheats of gaming discovered.
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 813 He..cast a panier on his bac, With fish giueled.
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1653 E. MANLOVE Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 258 Soletrees, Roach, and Ryder.
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1570 BILLINGSLEY Euclid V. def. iv. 129 This likenes, idemptitie, or equallitie of proportion is called proportionallitie.
Mon, 06/28/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1529 [implied in SUPERCILIOUSLY].
Sun, 06/27/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: ?c1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1841) 58 Come toward and go froward til {th}e perpendicle..falle vpon {th}e mydel lyne of {th}e quadrant.
Sat, 06/26/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 233 And so Peter Bercharius in his dictionary describeth it.
Fri, 06/25/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1513 FABYAN Chron. VII. (1811) 614 The whiche persone..shewyd to hym that the castell of Coruyle was but sklenderly manned.
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1478 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 16/1 Thai pretermittit to allege to a warand.
Wed, 06/23/2010 - 07:00
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1854 W. E. SWAINE tr. C. Rokitansky Man. Pathol. Anat. I. ii. 48 Congenital abnormal diminutiveness affects the entire body, as dwarf structure (microsomia).
