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Furnivall

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Fur·ni·vall  (fûrn-vl), Frederick James 1825-1910.
British philologist who founded numerous literary societies and as a member of the Philological Society proposed the Oxford English Dictionary in 1857.
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Noun1.Furnivall - English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910)
Frederick James Furnivall


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Tolkien, Civil War surgeon William Chester Minor, the eccentric Frederick James Furnivall, and a clutch of lexicographers at the Ashmolean Library to provide vision and accuracy in assuring dictionary users the most fastidious examination of every word in the language.
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The sociologist John Rex points out that the concept of the plural society (as used by Furnivall and others) involves the recognition of cultural difference together with the political and economic exploitation of one group by another.
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