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(1851) I. 390 In respect that the people are not secluded, but have their interest in church-matters, it is a democraty, or a popular estate. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 97 Democraties do not nourish game and pleasures like unto Monarchies. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 732 Nothing‥can bee more disorderlie, then the confusion of your Democracie, or HOW ARE WORDS ADDED TO THE OED? Words come into the English language in all manner of ways. The Oxford English Dictionary’s mission is to record all of these word stories, capturing their development as they continue to unfold. Find out how words are added to the OED: HOME : OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY a1613 Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 46 Man did but the well-being of this life From Woman take; her Being she from Man. 1617 Woodall Surgeon's Mate (1639) Pref. 1 So many waies in use for the health and wel-being of man~kinde. 1646 J. Benbrigge Usura Acc. 8 The publicke-Weale wherein our owne Being, and Well-being are wrapped up. 1705 F. 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(ˈhælsɪən, ˈhælʃɪən) Forms: 4 alceon, alicion, 6 alcion, halsion, 6–7 halcion, 7 alcian, 6– alcyon, halcyon. [a. L. halcyon, more properly alcyon, a. Gr. ἀλκυών kingfisher. The spelling ἁλ-hal-, is supposed to have arisen out of the fancy that the word was f. ἅλ-ς sea + κύων conceiving, connected with the fable that the halcyon broods upon her nest floating on SOCIAL CHANGE AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: THE LANGUAGE OF COVID Social change and linguistic change: the language of Covid-19. It is a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate global discourse, even to WWW.OED.COM
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