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Craigie

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Crai·gie  (krg), Sir William Alexander 1876-1957.
British lexicographer and philologist who was joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901-1933).

Craigie [ˈkreɪgɪ]
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(Biographies / Craigie, Sir William A(lexander) (1867-1957) M, Scottish, LANGUAGE: lexicographer) Sir William A(lexander). 1867-1957, Scottish lexicographer; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901-33), and of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938-44)
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Noun1.Craigie - English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)


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Compatible clinical disease descriptions have been documented since the time of Hippocrates; however, the term relapsing fever was first used by David Craigie to describe an outbreak of the disease in Edinburgh in 1843 (1).
In the opener, the only segment in black-and-white, gallery director Jane Hamlyn recalls how a Craigie Horsfield photograph she'd once exhibited attracted a visitor who not only knew the female sitter but had lived in the gallery years before, when it was a private residence, and where this woman had visited him.
Craigie died unexpectedly in 1988 after having finished the commentary only through Jeremiah 8:3.
 
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