Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A termination of some patrial adjectives equivalent to the simple -ite suffix, as Ishmaelitish, Israelitish, Moabitish.

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Examples

  • While many experts attribute guarana's effects solely to its caffeine content, the B.itish study found the effects on cognition were larger than would be expected with caffeine alone, says senior author Andrew B. Scholey, now co-director of the National Institute of Complementary Medicine's collaborative center for neurocognition in Melbourne, Australia.

    Can a Caffeine-Packed Plant Give a Boost? Laura Johannes 2010

  • While many experts attribute guarana's effects solely to its caffeine content, the B.itish study found the effects on cognition were larger than would be expected with caffeine alone, says senior author Andrew B. Scholey, now co-director of the National Institute of Complementary Medicine's collaborative center for neurocognition in Melbourne, Australia.

    Can a Caffeine-Packed Plant Give a Boost? Laura Johannes 2010

  • In 1939 the Herald Exhibition of French and Br­itish Contemporary Art aka Degenerate in the Melbourne Town Hall assem­b­l­ed can­vases that included many of the best modernists in France and Britain.

    Yosl Bergner, the Australian Years Hels 2009

  • In 1939 the Herald Exhibition of French and Br­itish Contemporary Art aka Degenerate in the Melbourne Town Hall assem­b­l­ed can­vases that included many of the best modernists in France and Britain.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

  • This romantic, Mughal-styled mosque was designed by the B.itish architect A.B. Hubbock in 1907 for the Malay community.

    Kuala Lumpur Lorien Holland 2008

  • B. P.'s CEO resigns after a B.itish court rules newspapers can publish details of his private life.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2007 2007

  • Until Jan. 7 www. rmn.fr/galeriesnationalesdugrandpalais Madrid art As a young woman, London painter and graphic artist Paula Rego was drawn to the harsh Latin humanism of Goya and Modigliani, and later found a natural affinity with B.itish artists Lucian Freud and David Hockney, and American-born R.B. Kitaj, who continued to place faith in the human figure as the prime agent of artistic expression.

    Annals of Modern Design 2007

  • Courtesy of The B.itish Library/W.W. Norton A 19th century poster for a theatrical adaptation of "Frankenstein" in London by R.B. Peake.

    Man and Monster 2007

  • He changed the prewar “Sir B.rkeley Mean” to “Sir B.rkeley Goeben,” adding that “this most disastrous event … [a] lamentable blow to B.itish naval prestige, would never have occurred had Sir B. Milne had been off Messina with the three battle cruisers … as if international law mattered a damn.”

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, the novelist Naomi Mitchison (a "silly sympathiser"), and J.B. Priestley all pursued very successful careers without, so far as we know, any hindrance from the B.itish government.

    Orwell's List Ash, Timothy Garton 2003

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