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klo: paideia} and {Greek: enkyklios paideia}, but had no such composite word as {Greek: enkyklopadeia}. We gather however from these expressions, as from Lord Bacon's using the term 'circle-learning' (='orbis doctrinae', Quintilian), that 'encyclopaedia' did not exist in their time. [But 'encyclopedia' occurs in Elyot, _Governour_, 1531, vol. i, p. 118 (ed. Croft); 'encyclopaedie' in J. Sylvester, _Workes_, 1621, p. 660.] {60} See the passages quoted in my paper, _On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries_, p. 38. {61} [This prediction has been verified. 'Ethos' is used by Sir F. Palgrave, 1851, and in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica', 1875. N.E.D.] {62} We may see the same progress in Greek words which were being incorporated in the Latin. Thus Cicero writes {Greek: antipodes} (_Acad._ ii, 39, 123), but Seneca (_Ep._ 122), 'antipodes'; that is, the word for Cicero was still Greek, while in the period that elapsed between him and Seneca, it had become Latin: so too Cicero wrote {Greek: eido:lon}, the Younger Pliny 'idolon', and Tertullian 'idolum'. {63} [This rash prophecy has not been fulfilled. English speakers are still no more inclined to say 'pre/stige' than 'po/lice'.] {64} See in Coleridge's _Table Talk_, p. 3, the amusing story of John Kemble's stately correction of the Prince of Wales for adhering to the earlier pronunciation, 'obl_ee_ge,'--"It will become your royal mouth better to say obl_i_ge." {65} "In this great _acade/my_ of mankind". Butler, _To the Memory of Du Val_. {66} "'Twixt that and reason what a nice _barrier_". {67} [A fairly complete collection of these and similar semi-naturalized foreign words will be found in _The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicized Words_, edited by Dr. C. A. M. Fennell, 1892.] {68} [This is quite wrong. Mr. Fitzedward Hall shows that 'inimical' was used by Gaule in 1652, as well as by Richardson in 1758 (_Modern English_, p. 287). The N.E.D. quotes an instance of it from Udall in 1643.] {69} [The word had been already naturalized by H. More, 1647, Cudworth, 1678, Tucker 1765, and Carlyle, 1831.--N.E.D.] {70} [The earliest citation for 'abnormal' in the N.E.D. is dated 1835. The older word was 'abnormous'. Curious to say it is unrelated to 'normal' to which it has been assimila
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