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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLOGAN , the See also:

war-cry of the Highland clans. It was the gathering See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call of the See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan, often the name of the clan, the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of ' See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting, and the like, and was uttered when charging in See also:

BATTLE

battle. The Gaelic word, of which " slogan " is the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation, is sluagh-ghairm, from sluagh, See also:

army, See also:

HOST

host, and gairm, call, cry. A variant See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " slogan " is " slogorne," which has given rise to an invented word " slughorn," used by See also:

CHATTERTON, THOMAS (1752-1770)

Chatterton (Battle of See also:

Hastings, ii. 10) and by See also:

Browning (Childe See also:

Roland) as if the See also:

TERM

term meant some See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of war-See also:

trumpet or See also:

horn. See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat (Etym. Dict. 1898, Errata and Addenda) has shown that Chatterton used an edition of Gavin See also:

Douglas's See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

Virgil, where" slogorne " is spelled " slughorne," and the context, " The deaucht trumpet blawis the See also:

BRAG

brag of were; the slughorne, enseule or the wache cry went for the battall all suld be reddy," misled him.

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