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  • For no system of marks in a lexicon can tell one how to pronounce a word.

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  • The only completed lexicon (apart from the Indices of Naudet, 1832, and Weise, 1838) is that of Pareus (2nd ed., 1634).

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  • This lexicon is of especial importance by reason of its ample.

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  • None of these books relate to law; and the better opinion seems to be that there were two Tribonians, apparently contemporaries, though possibly some of the attributes of the jurist have been, by a mistake of the compilers or transcribers of the Lexicon of Suidas, extended to the man of letters of the same name.

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  • Girdles, bras and corsets have long been a part of a woman's lingerie lexicon, even if she doesn't wear any of these types of lingerie on a daily basis.

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  • Driver and Francis Brown he prepared a revised Hebrew and English Lexicon (1891-1905), and with Driver edited the " International Commentary Series."

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  • His great work, the Mikhlol, consists of a grammar and lexicon; his commentaries on various parts of the Bible are admirably luminous, and, in spite of his anti-Christian remarks, have been widely used by Christian theologians and largely influenced the English authorized version of the Bible.

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  • In the late 1970s, the addition of Dallas to the Friday night line up added must-see-television and cliffhanger to the lexicon of the television viewer with the 1981 "Who Shot J.R.?" storyline.

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  • The Lexicon Latina-Hungaricum of Albert Molnar first appeared at Nuremberg in 1604, and with the addition of Greek was reprinted till 1708.

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  • Sophocles, and the Lexicon Graecum suppletorium et dialecticum of Van Herwerden; whilst the new great Latin Lexicon, published by the Berlin Academy, is calculated to meet the needs of students of Latin patristic literature.

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  • Extended bibliography in Roscher's Lexicon der Mythologie.

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  • The standard lexicon was the `Aruk(h) of Nathan b.

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  • His last work was the Lexicon Platonicum (3 vols., 1834-1839), which is both valuable and comprehensive.

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  • In the end, the entire population comes to share a lexicon.

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  • It formed the basis of the lexicon, or rather glossary, of Hesychius of Alexandria, which is described in the preface as a new edition of the work of Diogenianus.

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  • Rabbinic learning moreover was cultivated at Basel by the elder Buxtorf who was the author of grammatical works and a lexicon.

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  • See Prince, Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon, s.v.

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  • On the philological methods of the ancient Babylonian priesthood, see Prince, Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon, Introduction.

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  • On the other hand our knowledge of Chian Homeridae comes chiefly from the lexicon of Harpocration, where we are told that Acusilaus and Hellanicus said that they were so called from the poet; whereas Seleucus pronounced this to be an error.

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  • The Lexicon (AEewv Euvaywyi), published later than the Bib iotheca, was probably in the main the work of some of his pupils.

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  • After all, our children have language problems and cannot be expected to acquire a huge lexicon.

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  • While the term cougar is relatively new in the pop culture lexicon, the pairing of an older woman with younger man is not.

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  • The character of Cat Grant comes to Smallville straight from the pages of the Superman lexicon.

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  • His system was' adopted by Abu'l-walid ibn Jannah, of Saragossa (died early in the nth century), in his lexicon (Kitab al-usul, in Arabic) and other works.

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  • In the East, Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem was the author of commentaries (not to be confounded with the Midrash Tanhuma) on many books of the Bible, and of an extensive lexicon (Kitab al-Murshid) to the Mishnah, all in Arabic.

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  • Norberg (Codex Nazaraeus, liber Adami appellatus, 3 vols., Copenhagen, 1815-1816, followed by a lexicon in 1816, and an onomasticon in 1817), is so defective as to be quite useless; even the name Book of Adam is unknown to the Mandaeans.

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  • There are, however, two articles in the Lexicon of Suidas under the name "Tribonianos."

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  • His principal work is a laborious Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leuwarden, 1713).

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  • By this lexicon Teller had put himself amongst the most advanced rationalists, and his opponents charged him with the design of overthrowing positive Christianity altogether.

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  • Muller in the Loth-12th edition of the Gesenius Lexicon and is now incorporated by 0.

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  • Tregelles wrote Heads of Hebrew Grammar (1852), translated Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, and was the author of a little work on the Jansenists (1851) and of various works in exposition of his special eschatological views (Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel, 1852,1852, new ed., 1864).

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  • The present writer in his Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon has mentioned this ruling phenomenon again and again.

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  • According to Brandes, quoting Martin Luther in the Lexicon Philologicum, the name is derived from Bram, Brim, i.e.

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  • In appearance and careful editing it leaves nothing to desire, containing the entire works, a lexicon, full bibliographical information, and an album of illustrations of the poet's places of residence, his arms, some title-pages of his plays, facsimiles of his writings, &c. Nothing is wanting but variorum comments, which Lefevre's edition supplies.

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  • On their style, see C. Paucker, De Latinitate Scriptorum Historiae Augustae (1870); special lexicon by C. Lessing (1901-1906).

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  • Sir Isaac Newton left behind him in manuscript a work entitled Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St John, which was published in London in 1733, in one volume 4to; another work, entitled Lexicon Propheticum, with a dissertation on the sacred cubit of the Jews, which was printed in 1737; and four letters addressed to Bentley, containing some arguments in proof of a Deity, which were published by Cumberland, a nephew of Bentley, in 1756.

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  • The work is thus a lexicon antibarbarum, and is interesting as illustrating the changes through which the Greek language had passed between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D.

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  • But, in so far as it claims to deal with special revelation, it lifts itself out of the circle of the sciences, and turns away from natural know 1 Other usages of O€oXoyla are the Divine nature of Christ (St John Chrysostom, quoted in Konstantinides' Greek Lexicon), Old and New Testaments (Theodoret, ib.); Greek theology and Mosaic or revealed theology (Theodoret).

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  • The great dictionary compiled and published by the South Slavonic Academy of Agram is called The Lexicon of the Servian or Croatian Language.

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  • Besides collecting national songs and poems, folk-lore, proverbs, &c., he wrote a grammar of the Servian language (Vienna, 1814) and the first Servian lexicon, with explanations in German and Latin (Vienna, 1818).

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  • In philology a very high place is occupied by Gyuro Danichich, once professor of philology at the high school in Belgrade and secretary to the South Slavonic Academy at Agram, where he was for years the principal editor of the great lexicon of the Servian or Croatian language.

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  • One of its oldest names, however, was Din-tir, of which the poets were especially fond; Din-tir signifies in Sumerian "the life of the forest," though a native lexicon translates it "seat of life."

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  • Of his lexicographical works the Kitab Muqaddimat ul-Adab was edited as Samachscharii Lexicon Arab.

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  • With C. Siegfried he has revised and edited the Hebrew lexicon, Hebr.

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  • Unfortunately, Kurdish lexicography is not a matter of simply compiling the data from all the existing dictionaries into one big lexicon.

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  • Campbell Jung lexicon Of terms A useful lexicon of terms, particularly related to the psychology of Carl Jung.

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  • The secular term " burn-out " has entered the evangelical lexicon over the past two decades.

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  • The experimental results showed that agents using either strategy could develop a coherent lexicon rather well.

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  • The tree node used when building a lexicon with block information.

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  • An output stream for writing the lexicon to a file sequentially.

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  • Representing the environments for phonological processes in an accent-independent lexicon for synthesis of English.

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  • Should a multilingual lexicon capture all these similarities or should only a specific kind of similarities be captured?

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  • Alignment at word level effectively means developing a bilingual lexicon.

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  • Brown's Hebrew lexicon also reinforced Strong's definition.

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  • Finally we discuss the implications for the mental lexicon.

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  • To top Strong's lexicon Strong's Hebrew & Greek lexicon is a standard reference work.

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  • The treatment of vowels preceding ' r ' in a keyword lexicon of English.

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  • For over twenty years, Lexicon has been revered as the industry leader in digital reverb.

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  • First, within-word pronunciation variants were generated by applying a set of five optional phonological rules to the words in the baseline lexicon.

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  • His chief works were his translation of Grimm's Clavis Novi Testamenti (1887; revised 1889) as A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, and his New Testament bibliography (1890).

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  • In a different department there is the first Talmud lexicon (`Arukh) now lost, by Zemah ben Paltoi, Gaon of Pumbeditha in the 9th century.

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  • The earliest lexicon is that of Gabriel (Mizser) Pesti alias Pestinus Pannonius, Nomenclatura sex linguarum, Latinae, Italicae, Gallicae, Bohemicae, Ungaricae et Germanicae (Vienna, 1538), which was several times reprinted.

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  • The grammatical work of Rabbi Jonah extended, moreover, to the domain of rhetoric and biblical hermeneutics, and his lexicon contains many exegetical excursuses.

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  • A series of articles in the margin of a Cambridge MS. of the lexicon forms the basis of the Lexicon rhetoricum Cantabrigiense (see Dobree, P. P.).

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  • Jonah (Abulwalid), which was cast in a similar bipartite form; and it was chiefly due to I imhi's grammar and lexicon that, while the contents of Abulwalid's works were common knowledge, they themselves remained in oblivion for centuries.

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  • Swift may have learned that Esther means "star" from the Elementa linguae persicae of John Greaves or from some Persian scholar; but he is more likely to have seen the etymology in the form given from Jewish sources in Buxtorf's Lexicon, where the interpretation takes the more suggestive form "Stella Veneris."

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  • Subordinating conjunctions are distinguished in the lexicon by the label " S " rather than " C ".

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  • Updated summary report on the progress of the lexicon.

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  • Pidgins also feature a special lexicon with simplified syntax which is based on the language spoken by the dominant group.

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  • Krypos-Net offers this free Greek "lexicon" for anyone to use to automatically translate words from Greek to English.

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  • The insatiable appetite of this invertebrate will keep you occupied for hours on end as you frantically seek out the lexicon entries hidden among the mass of letter tiles.

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  • General Sherman's succinct declaration on the brute nature of war has become ensconced in our national lexicon as an offhand way of acknowledging the true horror of war without actually having to think on it.

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  • Games -- Literati provides you with a Scrabble-like game board, an initial set of seven letter tiles, and the challenge to sift through the seemingly enormous lexicon in your brain.

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  • Lexicon Entertainment has announced it has acquired the rights to publish Chronos Twin as a Nintendo DS game and will release it in Europe in 2007.

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  • Bring your mind lexicon (or a regular lexicon) because you'll be pounding your brain for obscure 3-letter words you may have never heard.

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  • One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM's product looked like the tiny seeds in a strawberry.

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  • Women's business casual clothing was not even in the lexicon until the 1990s.

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  • As one 21-year old told the Washington Post, "It's part of our lexicon".

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  • Manufactured homes may also be called mobile homes, although the term manufactured home began to replace "mobile home" in formal government lexicon in 1976.

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  • Initially a 1992 film starring Kristy Swanson, Buffy's story entered the pop culture lexicon in 1997 television series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.

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  • All this is done over a Lexicon, which is both magical and technological at the same time.

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  • The series premiere debuted not with the destruction of Krypton as detailed in the Superman lexicon, but with the meteor shower that brought Kryptonian orphan Kal-El to Earth.

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  • The two-note motif that signals the oncoming shark entered the pop culture lexicon and today it is nearly synonymous with all sharks, thanks to the power of Williams' music.

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  • The animated film was widely well received and emphasized the power of a female icon in the modern, superhero lexicon.

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  • What makes Wonder Woman peril so real for her fans is that Wonder Woman is the most powerful female icon in the super hero lexicon.

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  • One of the most recognizable characters in Marvel's X-Men lexicon was that of Jean Grey.

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  • How the show entered the pop culture lexicon?

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  • These five shows all entered the pop culture lexicon and are recognizable beyond their niche markets and fans.

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  • Star Trek Enterprise was the fifth and final television series in the Star Trek lexicon.

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  • This is just a small lexicon of the great Lord of the Rings characters that populate the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien and the films based on them by Peter Jackson.

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  • Much of it has been incorporated in the lexicon of Suidas, as we learn from that author.

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  • Of Baroti's purely linguistic works the best known are his Ortographia es Prosodia (Komarom, 1800); and the Kisded Szotdr (Kassa, 2784 and 1792) or " Small Lexicon " of rare Hungarian words.

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  • To the third quarter of the 10th century we may assign the Greek lexicon of Suidas, a combination of a lexicon and an encyclopaedia, the best articles being those on the history of literature.

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  • Jewish teacher about 1492, published a work entitled De Rudimentis Hebraicis containing a Hebrew lexicon and a Hebrew grammar.

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  • All this is to the point with regard to Sumerian, because these very principles of inversion and substitution have been ' Prince, Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon, p. 14.

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