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  • noun Plural form of lexicon.

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Examples

  • Drawing from various visual and verbal lexica, some sandwich boards share imagery with Conturbatio, Nocturne, and Tube Portraits, and create their own collage, connecting disparate pieces of the world.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • Drawing from various visual and verbal lexica, some sandwich boards share imagery with Conturbatio, Nocturne, and Tube Portraits, and create their own collage, connecting disparate pieces of the world.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • Drawing from various visual and verbal lexica, some sandwich boards share imagery with Conturbatio, Nocturne, and Tube Portraits, and create their own collage, connecting disparate pieces of the world.

    Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

  • They are rarely named in contemporary lexica; in official documents their names are often listed only in conjunction with a husband; articles about their anniversaries are rare; and there is not one self-testimony such as an autobiographical essay or legacy from any woman involved in the Viennese Yiddish theater.

    Yiddish Theater in Vienna. 2009

  • I will be the first to confess that I am primarily a New Testament scholar and am as dependent on lexica and commentaries as anyone who is not primarily a specialist in the Hebrew Bible.

    Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009

  • It includes Hebrew, Greek, Syriac as well as many other Bibles, and some lexica too.

    Archive 2009-11-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • It includes Hebrew, Greek, Syriac as well as many other Bibles, and some lexica too.

    Free Bibles James F. McGrath 2009

  • The defense was a bit more involved actually, a LOT more involved than the Honors College had led me to believe, but it went fairly well aside from some left-field questions about the relative merits of various Latin lexica and the history and usage of the word scriptrix.

    All's Well That Ends Well Leigh 2008

  • The defense was a bit more involved actually, a LOT more involved than the Honors College had led me to believe, but it went fairly well aside from some left-field questions about the relative merits of various Latin lexica and the history and usage of the word scriptrix.

    Archive 2008-05-25 Leigh 2008

  • Every single hit is some sort of specialized/technical use: theology, philosophy, dictionary definitions, in one case a band name and bands have been scouring the lexica for unused names for decades now.

    languagehat.com: HYPOSTASIS. 2005

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