Furnivall

[fur-nuh-vuhl]

noun

1. Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.

Furnivall

/ ˈfɜːnɪvəl /

noun

1. Frederick James . 1825–1910, English philologist: founder of the Early English Text Society and one of the founders of the Oxford English Dictionary

Example Sentences

Frederick Furnivall wanted this dictionary to be a democratic dictionary.

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He describes a “plural society” existing nearly a century before John Furnivall, a British colonial administrator, came up with the term.

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Furnivall’s original description of the plural society is very different from the way “pluralism” has come to be understood in the West.

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The office is still held in modern convents, and Dr Furnivall printed an interesting letter from a Benedictine nun, describing the duties attached to it.

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Dr. Furnivall has pointed out a line of Hoccleve’s which certainly seems to imply that the younger poet was present at his master Chaucer’s death-bed.

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