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A most important work for the study of English Etymologies.

From Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various

It was not a philological age, and S. Thomas made use of the Book of Etymologies drawn up in the seventh century by S. Isidore of Seville.

From On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Pope, Hugh

But Apollodorus, in the second book of his Etymologies, says that there are some snails which are called κωλυσιδειπνοι, interrupters of banquets.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Mr. Editor,—I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.

From Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 by Various

His Etymologies were often imitated, quoted and copied.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various