Sentence examples for universal dictionary from inspiring English sources

Probably issued in: The universal dictionary of trade and commerce... / by Malachy Postlethwayt... 3rd ed.

The first edition of his Cyclopaedia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences appeared in 1728, and its success led to Chambers' election to the Royal Society.

In England, Henry Cecil Wyld produced his Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1932), admirable in every way except for its social class elitism.

His finest encyclopaedia, the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1865 90; "Great Universal Dictionary of the 19th Century"), one of the most influential of the century, was deliberately anticlerical in policy.

Furetière incurred worse displeasure when, late in 1684, he revealed his intention of publishing his own universal dictionary of the French language, on which he had been working for some 40 years.

Cyclopædia, in full Cyclopædia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, two-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopaedia compiled and edited by the English encyclopaedist Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728.

These are added to users' own personal dictionaries, but are also sent back to eType for review and possible inclusion in the universal dictionaries.

To ensure that data were comparable across different platforms and species, gene signature identifiers were translated using both a universal gene dictionary to map them to a standard NCBI gene reference and a cross-organism dictionary to assign them to precomputed ortholog clusters (Methods).

Barclay, A Complete and Universal English Dictionary (London, 1782), "Sacrilege". 46.

Jaucourt wrote a universal medical dictionary in 1728, but the only copy of the volume was lost in a shipwreck on its way to the publisher.

This indication was confirmed by the successful publication of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704), which the author described as "an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves".