USUALLY STYLED VOSSIUS GERHARD JOHANN VOSS
\jˈuːʒuːə͡li stˈa͡ɪld vˈɒsɪəs ɡˈe͡əhɑːt d͡ʒˈə͡ʊhan vˈɒs], \jˈuːʒuːəli stˈaɪld vˈɒsɪəs ɡˈeəhɑːt dʒˈəʊhan vˈɒs], \j_ˈuː_ʒ_uː_əl_i s_t_ˈaɪ_l_d v_ˈɒ_s_ɪ__ə_s ɡ_ˈeə_h_ɑː_t dʒ_ˈəʊ_h_a_n v_ˈɒ_s]\
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A celebrated Dutch philologist; born near Heidelberg 1577; died at Amsterdam, March 17, 1649. In certain departments of archaeophilology he made valuable original researches; and he was the first to indicate the historical evolution of the Latin language. Among his writings are: "Essays on Rhetoric; or, The Institutes of Oratory", his greatest work (1606); "The Greek Historians" (1624); "The Latin Historians" (1627); "Aristarchus; or, On the Art of Grammar" (1635); "Of Errors of Speech and Latino-Barbarous Terms" (1640); "Heathen Theology" (1642); "The Times of the Ancient Poets" (1654); "Etymology of the Latin Language" (1662). The "Correspondence of Vossius with Eminent Men" was published in 1691.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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- ustus
- usual
- usual course of business
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- usually called tom thomas d' urfey
- usually styled Vossius Gerhard Johann Voss
- usualness
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- usucaptio
- usucaption