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"Assuming the pilgrim's habit and compassing and running." Q "What are the traditional statutes of the pilgrimage?" "Its essentials are: the descent of the Infidels upon us; the presence of the Imam; a state of preparation; and firmness in meeting the foe. So he said to her, "O damsel, what is the lexicographical meaning of Wuzu?"
From other sources the great age of Uruk is confirmed, and Hilprecht is of the opinion that it was the capitol of a kingdom contemporaneous with the earliest period of Babylonian history. A lexicographical tablet informs us that Uruk was specially well fortified.
In 1730, moreover, he brought out with the aid of some specialists, his folio dictionary, the greatest lexicographical work yet undertaken in English, into which he also introduced diagrams and proverbs. This is an interesting book historically, for, according to Sir John Hawkins, it formed the working basis of Dr. Johnson .
After the dreadful deluge has come, Ishtar breaks out in wild lament that mankind, her offspring, has perished: "What I created, where is it?" She is called 'the mistress of the gods, and if Jensen is correct in an ingenious restoration of a defective text, Aruru is given the same epithet in a lexicographical tablet. The Ishtar occurring in the Gilgamesh story is the old Ishtar of Erech.
It was the first time I had ever committed the word to writing, and all at once I felt I would like lexicographical authority for it. A small English-German dictionary was all I had at hand. I turned up C, ca, car, carm. There it was: 'Carminative: windtreibend. Windtreibend!" he repeated. Mr. Scogan laughed. Denis shook his head. "Ah," he said, "for me it was no laughing matter.
In the course of this lecture, it has been needful to give so many details as to individual works, that my audience may at times have failed 'to see the wood for the trees, and may have lost the clue of the lexicographical evolution. Let me then in conclusion recapitulate the stages which have been already indicated.
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