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Definition of Oswald
1. Noun. United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963).
Definition of Oswald
1. Proper noun. (Old English male given name). ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oswald
Literary usage of Oswald
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"PL oswald, 12 :37. Hygiene. Mortality in different pursuits (Misc. ... FL oswald,
19 : 595, 721. Removal of inherited tendencies to disease (12 p.). ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1892)
"The portrait of Franklin owned by the Boston Public Library and claimed to be by
Greuze, is said to have belonged to Mr. oswald, and was the portrait which ..."
3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1892)
"MINOR TOPICS PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Editor Magazine of American History :
The enclosed letter from a descendant of Mr. oswald, the British Peace ..."
4. The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1896)
"oswald AND THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY IN NORTHUMBRIA The Celtic monks revive,
in Northumbria, ... oswald begs for missionaries from the Celtic monasteries. ..."
5. Chapters of Early English Church History by William Bright (1897)
"indeed in having an oswald for his king : and in the early CHAP. v. days of his
episcopate, oswald was often to be seen employing that knowledge of the ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Ethelwold proceeded to turn the secular clergy out of the monasteries by force,
oswald appears to have adopted a gentler policy. ..."
7. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"The leader of the new mission to Bernicia was Aidan (correctly Aedan), whom oswald
established, not at York amid Roman surroundings, but on the island of ..."
8. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"There are hints of earlier wars and fightings between the two states, but all
that we can certainly say is that on August 5, 642, oswald and Penda met in ..."
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