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Bourbaki, Charles Denis Sauter

(Encyclopedia)Bourbaki, Charles Denis Sauter shärl dənēˈ sōtāˈ bo͞orbäkēˈ [key], 1816–97, French general of Greek ancestry. In the Algerian campaigns and the Crimean War he gained one of the highest mi...

Hieron

(Encyclopedia)Hieron. For Greek rulers of Syracuse named thus, use Hiero.

Edinburgh, University of

(Encyclopedia)Edinburgh, University of, at Edinburgh, Scotland; founded 1583. It has faculties of divinity, law, medicine, arts, science, music, social sciences, and veterinary medicine. The Institute for Advanced ...

paradox

(Encyclopedia)paradox, statement that appears self-contradictory but actually has a basis in truth, e.g., Oscar Wilde's “Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” Many New Critics mai...

Brahui

(Encyclopedia)Brahui bräho͞oˈē [key], Dravidian language of Baluchistan. See Dravidian languages. ...

Telugu

(Encyclopedia)Telugu tĕlˈəgo͞oˌ [key], Dravidian language of India: see Dravidian languages. ...

Bishop's University

(Encyclopedia)Bishop's University, provincially supported, English-language university at Lennoxville, Que., Canada; founded 1843 by the Anglican bishop of Quebec as a liberal arts college. In 1853 it gained univer...

Davidson, Donald Herbert

(Encyclopedia)Davidson, Donald Herbert, 1917–2003, American philosopher, b. Springfield, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1949). A student of W. V. Quine, Davidson emerged as one of the major figures in p...

Chickasaw

(Encyclopedia)Chickasaw chĭkˈəsô [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They occupied N Mississippi an...

etymology

(Encyclopedia)etymology ĕtĭmŏlˈəjē [key], branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the ...