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Definition of Polyglots
1. polyglot [n] - See also: polyglot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyglots
Literary usage of Polyglots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"From the same source Eichhorn derives the text in the polyglots. ... The other
portions printed in the polyglots are of Christian origin, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Vigouroux made use of it in the very latest of the polyglots. Cardinal Ximenes
was, he assures us, eager to secure the best manuscripts accessible to serve ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It ь followed, on the whole, in the Septuagint columns of the four great polyglots
edited by Montanus (Antwerp, 1500-72); Bertram (Heidelberg, 1586-1010): ..."
4. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXII The Egyptian Army— Eunuchs important beings — polyglots—Anecdote (from
court gossip) about the two Schnieders — Adventuresses — The permanent ..."
5. Hand-list of a Collection of Bibles, New Testaments and Parts Thereof by Walter Arthur Copinger (1899)
"It is certainly the most sumptuous of all the polyglots. The Samaritan Pentateuch
and a Samaritan version of it first appeared in this work. ..."
6. Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences by Oscar Tully Shuck (1889)
"... Senior in Service of All American Judges—Some of the Great Causes that Have
Come Before Him—Position on the Chinese Question—Among the polyglots—Severe ..."
7. The Classical Poetry of the Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1880)
"polyglots. Beames.—OUTLINES OF INDIAN PHILOLOGY. "With a Map, showing the
Distribution of the Indian Languages. By JOHN BEAMES. Second enlarged and revised ..."
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