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See also:SKEAT, See also:WALTER See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1835– ) , See also:English philologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:November 1835, and educated at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Highgate See also:Grammar School, and See also:Christ's College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became a See also:fellow in See also:July i86o. In 1878 he was elected Ellington and See also:Bosworth See also:Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. He completed See also:Mitchell See also:Kemble's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, and did much other See also:work both in Anglo-Saxon and in See also:Gothic, but is perhaps most generally known for his labours in See also:Middle English, and for his See also:standard See also:editions of See also:Chaucer and Piers Plowman (see See also:LANG-See also:LAND). As he himself generously declared, he was at first mainly guided in the study of Chaucer by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Bradshaw, with whom he was to have participated in the edition of Chaucer planned in 187o by the University of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, having declined in Bradshaw's favour an offer of the editorship made to himself. Bradshaw's perseverance was not equal to his See also:genius, and the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme came to . nothing for the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but was eventually resumed and carried into effect by Skeat in an edition of six volumes (1894), a supplementary See also:volume of Chaucerian Pieces being published in 1897. He also issued an edition of Chaucer in one volume for See also:general readers, and a See also:separate edition of his See also:Treatise on the See also:Astrolabe, with a learned commentary. His edition of Piers Plowman in three parallel texts was published in 1886; and, besides the Treatise on the Astrolabe, he edited numerous books for the See also:Early English See also:Text Society, including the See also:Bruce of See also:John See also:Barbour, the romances of See also:Havelock the Dane and William of Palerne, and ./Elfric's Lives of the See also:Saints (4 vols.). For the Scottish Text Society he edited The Kingis Quair, usually ascribed to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. of See also:Scotland, and he published an edition (2 vols., 1871) of See also:Chatterton, with an investigation of the See also:sources
of the obsolete words employed by him. In pure See also:philology Skeat's See also:principal achievement is his Etymological English See also:Dictionary (4 parts, 1879–1882; rev. and enlarged, 191o), the most important of all his See also:works, which must be considered in connexion with the numerous publications of the English See also:Dialect Society, in all of which, even when not edited by himself, he had a See also:hand as the founder of the society and afterwards its See also:president.
His other works include: Specimens of English from 1394 to 1597 (1871); Specimens of Early English from 1298 to 1393 (1872), in See also:conjunction with R. See also:Morris; Principles of English See also:Etymology (2 See also:series, 1887 and 1891); A Concise Dictionary of Middle English (1888), in conjunction with A. L. See also:Mayhew; A Student's Pastime (1896), a volume of essays; The Chaucer See also:Canon (1900); A Primer of Classical and English Philology (1905), &c., &c.
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