Example sentences for: oed
How can you use “oed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.
While reading about quantum in the OED Supplement , I noticed the preceding word, quantophrenia , which is defined as A term used for an obsession with and exaggerated reliance upon mathematical methods or results, especially in research connected with the social sciences.
The OED insists telethon is “orig.
Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).
I checked in MWIII and in the OED 2e : neither yielded the definition sought (though the OED2e has a definition, labeled obsolete and obviously not the meaning sought, the first page of a book).
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