Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medieval Latin as used in England.
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- proper noun
Medieval Latin language as used inBritain , especiallyecclesiastical and legal Latin. - proper noun
Term derived from the Anglo-Latin medioevallanguage , such ashearse ,herald andprong .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In doing so, they forget the influence of what Clark calls the Anglo-Latin culture that flourished until the 1760s and continued into the nineteenth century.
Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996
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From Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, an Anglo-Latin lexicon from c. 1440:
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From Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, an Anglo-Latin lexicon from c.1440:
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We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, art, religion, or archaeology.
ASSC Call For Papers Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, art, religion, or archaeology.
Archive 2007-09-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Sir Thomas Brown, whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin diction; and to his example we are to ascribe
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Johnson's ideological affinities are important to Clark's wider discussion of the conflict between Anglo-Latin and vernacular culture.
Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996
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The collapse of Jacobitism in the 1740s and 50s marked the Anglo-Latin traditions decline.
Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996
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The life and work of Samuel Johnson provide the framework for Clark's study because Johnson's place in the Anglo-Latin tradition and his support for its political commitments make him its most noted exponent.
Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996
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Clark thus seeks to recover the Anglo-Latin tradition from a retrospective historiography that dismissed it as a dying idiom that had already given way to English.
Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996
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