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WORD DOSSIERS
nouncontrarian claim
algorithm
A finite or stepwise procedure, descended through medieval arithmetic vocabulary from the Latinized name of al-Khwārizmī.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noun · verbdossier summary
lecture
A formal instructional talk, named through a Latin lineage whose central action was reading.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noundossier summary
lesson
A unit of instruction or something learned, descending through a word that first named an act or selection of reading.
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
lecture
an instructional discourse; later a formal reproof
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- 15th century–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
lesson
a unit of instruction or something learned
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- 13th century–today
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Middle English / Indo-European
lesson / lessoun
a reading, assigned text, or unit of instruction
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- Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
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- 1
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resolvedestablishedposition text
Was a lecture originally spoken?
The immediate Latin ancestor lectūra meant an act of reading. The instructional spoken discourse is a later semantic development.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did lesson originally mean a spoken class?
Its secure ancestry points first to reading: Anglo-French leçon and Late Latin lectio, an act or selection of reading from legere. Instruction and learned-experience senses develop from that base.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 203GRADE Aranked reveal
A lesson began as a reading.
Anglo-French leçon and Late Latin lectio name reading before the word expands into instruction and something learned from experience.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The CHIMES entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses calculate in instructions about clock-chime numbers.
calculate / calculate / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciencesreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The PAPER-OFFICE entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum includes Letters of Intelligence among official papers communicated to the King’s Council.
intelligence / intelligence / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and scienceswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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