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I then went to my 3rd edition of the Concise Oxford (1934): it does not give the word, which caused me to think that it probably is a recently fabricated one and that I should not worry about it.
The monumental Oxford English Dictionary [ OED ], now in its second edition and filling 20 vast volumes, contains many extremely quaint definitions that were written a hundred years ago or more and remain unrevised:
Oxford Banal-ytica
In the New York Review of Books , Oxford Professor of Poetry James Fenton attacks The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik for attacking John Richardson's biography of Picasso and for attacking Picasso himself.
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."