Literature

  • 101Literature —    One of the great mystical authors of the Middle Ages, Jan van Ruusbroec wrote devotional treatises from his monastery in the Forêt de Soignes in the 14th century. French poet Eustache Deschamps spent three years in Brussels about 1380 and… …

    Historical Dictionary of Brussels

  • 102Literature — Литература; художественная литература …

    Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • 103LITERATURE —    defined by Carlyle as an apocalypse of nature, a revealing of the open secret, a continuous revelation of the God like in the terrestrial and common, which ever endures there, and is brought out now in this dialect, now in that, with various… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 104literature — [14] Latin littera meant ‘letter’, and was the source of English letter. From it was derived literātus ‘having knowledge of letters’, hence ‘educated, learned’ (source of English literate [15]); and this formed the basis of the further derivative …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 105literature — lit·er·a·ture || lɪtÉ™rÉ™tʃʊr / tʃə n. writings having lasting artistic value (i.e. poems, novels, essays, etc.); body of writing from a particular country (or time period, etc.); body of writing dealing with a certain subject; literary… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 106literature — stafas …

    English to the Old English

  • 107literature — noun 1》 written works, especially those regarded as having artistic merit. 2》 books and writings on a particular subject. 3》 promotional or advisory leaflets and other material. Origin ME (in the sense knowledge of books ): via Fr. from L.… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 108literature —   In science, the accumulation of scientific papers and materials published on a given subject …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 109literature — n 1. letters, belles lettres, literary works, writings, republic of letters; prose, poetry, writing, creative writing, written art; classics, publications, books, the printed word; body of knowledge or infor mation, knowledge, pantology, lore. 2 …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 110literature — lit·er·a·ture …

    English syllables