Sentence examples for earliest usage from inspiring English sources

The year before, while still at Cambridge, he had found what is known in lexicography as an important antedating -- the use of a word in a particular sense years before what was thought to have been the earliest usage.

In architecture, "basilica" in its earliest usage designated any number of large roofed public buildings in ancient Rome and pre-Christian Italy, markets, courthouses, covered promenades, and meeting halls.

From the ancient Greek origins of the word (klíma, "an inclination or slope"—e.g., of the Sun's rays; a latitude zone of the Earth; a clime) and from its earliest usage in English, climate has been understood to mean the atmospheric conditions that prevail in a given region or zone.

With many technologies, the failure rate is curved, with the highest percentage failures at the very earliest usage points.

The continuing existence of Ge'ez, whose earliest usage has been traced by scholars back to the 5th century BC, is just one of many examples of this remarkable society's veneration for, and conservation of its history and traditions.

In its earliest usage, dating back to Greco-Roman times, it referred to popular styles of art, architecture, and decor that simply distorted or hybridised human, plant, and animal figures into motifs and images that were exaggeratedly funny, ugly, or outright bizarre.

Both meanings of the term are correct, and the earliest usages seem to favour a more local interpretation.

The earliest usages of which we are aware in the context of medical education are both from 1974 [ 7, 26], with one of them concerning the MRCP UK) examination [ 26].

"I believe it is extremely likely that there is earlier usage than 1969," he said.

Early usage: a writer named Henry de Knyghton used livid in 1258 to describe corpses.

An early usage is in the Asset Securitization Report of March 10 , 2008 in its headline "Tranche Warfare Boosts U.S. CDO Activity".