A book on hot dog's glossarial provenance will appear this year under the names of Mr. Shulman, Mr. Cohen and Barry Popick. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: RIP DAVID SHULMAN.] Reference
T. appears to apply a peculiar meaning of his own to the word "version," which it would have been quite as well if he had explained in a glossarial note. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850] Reference
Here glossarial, textual, and literary information is bundled together. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
The following glossarial dictionary is intended to supply that desideratum. From Wordnik.com. [Uz-Translations : Dictionaries (Irish/Gaelic), Irish/Gaelic : A Dictionary of Scottish Language] Reference
(Preference is given to actual examples in running text, then to printed glossarial evidence, and finally to orally collected examples.). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
Through the kindness of: Fr W.A. Craigie, Dr.M. Denby, and M..E. G. Bayford, I have also been able to make a few changes in the glossarial footnotes, The most important of these is the change from "E.ber's" to. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
It is this hyper-allegorical and glossarial method which constitutes the peculiar characteristic of his exegesis, and proves a valuable help to the literary critic in distinguishing authentic Hesychiana from the unauthentic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
I find this prose treatment of the elusive, allusive euphemism preferable to the dictionary approach because it offers the reader useful comment at a length stylistically proscribed by the customary glossarial treatment, regardless of how loosely it may be interpreted. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Any item with two or more examples may be considered secure; an item from a single non-glossarial source that parallels an existing expression may also be considered secure; an item with only a single glossarial citation would have been kept out unless a confirming example could be solicited. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
A glossarial index, we should have been still better pleased. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
946-1020, Eg. 1782, a most difficult passage, rendered more obscure by the incorporation of glossarial notes into the body of the text. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
Transliterations of the Cherokee text of the formulas are given, but it must be distinctly understood that the translations are intended only as free renderings of the spirit of the originals, exact translations with grammatic and glossarial notes being deferred until a more extended study of the language has been made, when it is hoped to present with more exactness of detail the whole body of the formulas, of which the specimens here given are but. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
(This being said, one British publication does offer a special obscure-words puzzle, probably for the benefit of glossarial masochists. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
4th edit. with a glossarial Index, 15 vols. 8vo. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
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