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• The Concise Oxford Dictionary sixth edition has as its first meaning for bible the Christian scriptures, the second meaning says " Scriptours of other religions; authoritative book ".
• He and his brother Francis George Fowler composed " The King's English ", the Concise Oxford Dictionary and much of " Modern English Usage " on the island.
• The same year it appeared as a new word in the " Concise Oxford Dictionary, " although as of 2017 only Collins of the major online dictionaries retained it as a word.
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary explains a trust to be an arrangement in which a settlor transfers property to one or more trustees who will hold it for the benefit of one or more persons, called beneficiaries.
• The " Concise Oxford Dictionary " defines music as " the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds ( or both ) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion ".
• The Oxford University Press commissioned from the Fowler brothers a single-volume abridgement of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), which was published as the " Concise Oxford Dictionary " in 1911.
• Originally composed in or before 1939, when it was first Produced ( in Yerevan ) as " Happiness " . [ The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Third Edition, by Michael Kennedy, 1980.
• Wiktionary also adds " blowing or deposit of dust ", the primary definition in the " Concise Oxford Dictionary ", which adds that this is a northern English and Scottish usage of uncertain derivation.
• According to " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ", he would eventually take part in every La Scala season until the end of 1887 and appear there again in 1901 as a guest artist.
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a trust as an arrangement in which a settlor transfers property to one or more trustees who will hold it for the benefit of one or more persons, who are called the beneficiaries.
• According to " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ", Pasero went on to make guest appearances in London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Buenos Aires and New York City.
• She cited Concise Oxford Dictionary as defining Alsatian, in reference to dogs, as " a large breed used as a guard dog, " with the name traced to Alsace, a region of eastern France.
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, first published in 1951, interpreted the name as " Royal bell-shaped hill " and the later Oxford Companion to Names ( 2002 ) also gives that as the meaning.
• "' Metfield "'is a village in Suffolk, England, but its name is derived from Medefeld or'Meadow feld'( see " Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names " ).
• He is notable for both " A Dictionary of Modern English Usage " and his work on the " Concise Oxford Dictionary ", and was described by " The Times " as " a lexicographical genius ".
• A : Both The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations cite as an early source sports commentator Dan Cook, who, in an apparent reference to opera, used the expression in the June 13, 1978, Washington Post.
• The 1979 edition of the " Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera " lists her as born "'Adriana Gabrieli "'and later known "'La Ferrarese "'( presumably from the city of her birth ).
• Dr . Andrew Rigg thinks so, and along with his letter noting the " misuse of wrangle " he sent copies of both definitions from his 1964 Concise Oxford Dictionary ( edited, he notes, by the word-wise brothers Fowler ).
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines the word trust as an arrangement in which a settlor transfers property to one or more trustees who will then hold it for the benefit of one or more individuals, who are referred to as the beneficiaries of the said trust.
• :No, but the current ( 2004 ) edition of the COED is an abbreviation of the second edition of the OED . In the first edition ( called the Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1911 ), only the letters A to R were derived from the OED, which had only got that far.