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Oxford|ˈɒksfəd|
[in OE. Oxena-, Oxnaford ‘ford of oxen’, ME. Oxneford, Oxenford.]
The name of a University town in England.
1. a. Used attributively in numerous expressions: Oxford accent, a style of pronouncing English popularly supposed to be particularly characteristic of members of the University of Oxford and (esp. before 1939) to be marked by affected utterance; Oxford bags [bag n. 16], a style of trousers very wide at the ankles; so Oxford-bagged a.; Oxford blue, a dark shade of blue, adopted as the colour of the university; Oxford Blues: see blue n. 7 a; Oxford chrome, yellow ochre, formerly dug at Shotover, near Oxford; Oxford clay (Geol.), a deposit of stiff blue clay underlying the ‘coral rag’ of the Middle Oolite in the midland counties of England, and esp. in Oxfordshire; earlier called clunch clay (clunch n. 6), plastic clay (plastic a. 5 b); Oxford cloth (see quots.); Oxford corners, in Printing, ruled border lines enclosing the print of a book, etc., crossing and extending beyond each other somewhat at the corners; Oxford(shire Down, a sheep of the breed so called, produced by crossing Cotswold and Hampshire Down sheep and developed by Samuel Druce at Eynsham about 1830; Oxford English, English spoken with an Oxford accent; the speech popularly supposed to be characteristic of a member of the University of Oxford; Oxford frame, a picture-frame the sides of which cross each other and project some distance at the corners; Oxford grey (see Oxford mixture); also, the colour of such cloth; Oxford Group: see group n. 3 d; Oxford hollow, in Bookbinding, a flattened paper tube inserted between the spine of the book and its cover, to strengthen the spine and allow the book to be opened flat more easily; Oxford John, a dish of sauced and stewed mutton with other ingredients; Oxford man, a man who has been educated at the University of Oxford; Oxford marmalade, a kind of coarse-cut marmalade originally manufactured in Oxford (registered as a trade-mark by Frank Cooper in 1908 and 1931); also attrib. and fig.; Oxford mixture, a kind of woollen cloth of a very dark grey colour; called also Oxford grey, pepper-and-salt, thunder-and-lightning; Oxford Movement (Ch. Hist.), the movement for the revival of Catholic doctrine and observance in the Church of England, which began at Oxford about 1833; Oxford ochre = Oxford chrome above; Oxford oolite (Geol.), the middle division of the Oolitic system: see oolite 2; Oxford plant = Oxford weed; Oxford punch [punch n.3] (see quots.); Oxford ragwort, an annual herb, Senecio squalidus, belonging to the family Compositæ and bearing heads of yellow flowers (a native of southern Italy now naturalized in Britain, after having escaped from the Oxford Botanic Garden); Oxford sausage, a kind of sausage; also fig.; Oxford scholar slang, a crown; five shillings; a dollar; Oxford School (Ch. Hist.), the school of thought represented by the Oxford Movement; the body of persons belonging to this; Oxford shirt, a shirt made from Oxford cloth; Oxford shirting = Oxford cloth; Oxford shoe, a style of shoe laced over the instep; Oxford Tracts, the ‘Tracts for the Times’ issued 1833–41 in advocacy of the principles of the Oxford Movement, whence the movement and school are also known as tractarian; Oxford trousers = Oxford bags; Oxford unit Pharm., a unit of penicillin originally adopted at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in the University of Oxford, being the amount which when dissolved in 1 c.c. of water gave the same inhibition as a certain partly purified standard solution; cf. penicillin unit; Oxford voice = Oxford accent; Oxford weed, the ivy-leaved toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis.
1904J. K. Jerome Tommy & Co. v. 174 Somerville's *Oxford accent is wasted here. 1924Galsworthy On Expression 8 And dare we condemn cockney—a lingo whose waters, in Southern England, seem fast flooding in over the dykes of the so-called Oxford accent, and such other rural dialects as are left? 1934S.P.E. Tract xxxix. 616 It might be said perhaps that the ‘Oxford Accent’ conveys an impression of a precise and rather foppish elegance, and of deliberate artificiality. 1940G. Arthur Concerning Winston Spencer Churchill 194 Lacking the ‘Oxford accent’ he spoke as a Briton to Britons. 1959J. Braine Vodi vi. 93 Dick assumed an Oxford accent. ‘It's naht old-fashioned, dear brethren, to think of Hell in the language of fire and brimstone.’ 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 45 The Sultan's manner is very deceptive... His Oxford accent and his slang..are all a sort of parody of our civilisation.
1961Times 18 May 16/6 Eton-cropped maidens sporting decorously with *Oxford-bagged partners.
1927Dancing Times Jan. 573/2 *Oxford bags, plus fours, in fact, any old thing. 1933P. Balfour Society Racket ii. 61 We wore high-necked jumpers and ‘Oxford bags’. 1938J. Betjeman Oxf. Univ. Chest i. 9 The pale-faced mechanics in Oxford bags and tweed coats, walk down the Cornmarket. 1948H. Acton Mem. Aesthete vi. 119 Instead of the wasp-waisted suits with pagoda shoulders and tight trousers affected by the dandies, I wore jackets with broad lapels and broad pleated trousers. The latter got broader and broader. Eventually they were imitated elsewhere and were generally referred to as ‘Oxford bags’. 1971Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 9/5 By night you're either..Dietrich in a velvet blazer and Oxford bags, or Carole Lombard in a halter-neck satin top..and a long satin kilt. 1973Country Life 19 Apr. 1115/1 A single-breasted striped suit for the bridegroom, which has Oxford bags and patch pockets.
1866Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly I. viii. 191 ‘Strike your colours, ladies, you that sport the crimson and purple!’ called out a laughing voice from one of the skiffs. ‘*Oxford blue wins.’ 1875All Year Round 20 Feb. 444/2 The hues peculiar to the best period of Sèvres were gros-blue, a dark heavy Oxford blue. 1923Joyce Let. 26 Feb. (1966) III. 72 The smaller Oxford blue volume. 1959M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement xvii. 176 He picked up a thin, Oxford-blue folder. 1973R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xi. 101 A half-unbuttoned, oxford-blue shirt.
1875Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 465 *Oxford chrome, an oxide of iron used in oil and water-colour painting.
1818W. Phillips Selection of Facts Geol. Eng. & Wales 66 In these..are included the three strata..namely, the Forest marble, the Cornbrash limestone, and the clunch clay (*Oxford Clay). 1837Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XV. 203/2 The Coralline Formation..Lower group..Oxford clay. 1865Page Handbk. Geol., Oxford clay, the lower member of the Middle Oolite, so called from its being well developed in Oxfordshire. 1967D. H. Rayner Stratigr. Brit. Isles ix. 298 Around Peterborough, vast pits have been dug in the Oxford Clay for brick-making.
1964McCall's Sewing iv. 58/2 *Oxford cloth, plain-, basket- or twill-weave cotton, often used for shirting. It is fairly heavy cloth in which two yarns travel as one in the warp, and one filling yarn is equal in size to the two-warp yarns. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 243 Oxford cloth, a heavy cotton cloth used for shirts and sometimes jackets or summer suits. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 24 Rajah shirt with soil release. Oxford cloth of polyester and cotton. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 10/3 (Advt.), Our fine quality, breathable, pure cotton oxford cloth pyjamas are unbeatable for wear all year 'round.
[1849Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. 436 The Cotswold is a large breed of sheep, and is the stock from which the class called new Oxford is sprung.] 1859Ibid. XX. 345 Amongst the ‘other short-woolled sheep’ exhibited, we have Hampshire Downs, *Oxfordshire Downs, [etc.]. Ibid., The *Oxford Downs date from the year 1833..when a neat, well-made Cotswold ram was used with Hampshire ewes. 1912R. Lydekker Sheep v. 106 The formation of the Oxford down was commenced about the year 1833. 1970Observer (Colour Suppl.) 26 Apr. 36/1 All six Down breeds..are shortwools, Oxford Down..being heaviest... Bold-looking sheep with top⁓knot of wool above dark face.
1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serp. ii. 31 An odd, detached, yet cocky little man, a true little Indian, speaking *Oxford English in a rapid, low, musical voice. 1932S.P.E. Tract xxxvii. (title) ‘Oxford’ English. 1952M. Steen Phoenix Rising iv. 72 Americans come over and proceed to acquire what they think is Oxford English. 1969‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) ii. ii. 100 It was Oxford English with a slight accent which I took to be French. 1975ITV Evidence to Annan Committee 15 In the spoken word the traditional currency was, till recently, Oxford English.
1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 322 The barbarism, called an *Oxford frame. 1939‘N. Shute’ What happened to Corbetts iii. 88 He laid her on the ornate, gilded iron bed beneath a picture of the ‘Stag at Bay’ and a text in a wood Oxford frame that told them ‘God is love’. 1973J. Thomson Death Cap xiii. 177 The pictures on the walls were..pre-Raphaelite prints in Oxford frames.
1836W. F. Tolmie Diary 28 Oct. in Jrnls. (1963) 322, 1 pr Extra S. fine dark *Oxford grey trousers. 1864J. S. Le Fanu Uncle Silas II. xii. 191 An old Oxford gray surtout that showed his lank length to advantage. 1903–4Oxford grey [see Donegal]. 1964S. Bellow Herzog 237 A stylish oxford gray summer suit. 1973R. Hayes Hungarian Game xxxix. 235 Urkowitz' face was turning a shade of fine Oxford gray.
1956H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design xix. 308 Another method is to fix on the spine of the section a tube of paper, or *Oxford hollow, and to fix the cover to this. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 289/1 Oxford hollow: a flattened paper tube which is attached to the back of a book..so that when the book is opened the back opens up independently of the spine... The O[xford] U[niversity] P[ress], who have supplied this note, state ‘presumably the word Oxford was used to describe this kind of binding because undoubtedly the old Oxford bindery was the first to use it, particularly for leather-bound Bibles. It is properly applied only to a leather-bound book and is a style which is now used by most leather binders.’ 1965L. S. Darley Introd. Bookbinding 30 Another way of lining the spine, after the mull has been glued in place, is by making a tubular hollow—sometimes called an Oxford hollow—a device which provides a lining for the spine, a hollow for the cover and an additional point of union between the book and its case.
1892Encycl. Pract. Cookery II. 68/2 *Oxford John. 1952F. White Good Eng. Food ii. iv. 136 Oxford John. Take a well hung leg of mutton [etc.].
1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. B iij, You that are *Oxford men, enquire whether Walpoole were not a Puritane? 1890Gladstone Sp. at Oxford Union 5 Feb., To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that can be paid to any human being.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 24 Marmalade..*Oxford (Frank Cooper's). 1942C. Morley Thorofare lxx. 459 There was Cooper's bitter Oxford marmalade—the only Oxonian product to which Uncle Dan would grant supremacy. 1962Sunday Express 25 Feb. 6/3 Wyatt's thick-cut Oxford marmalade voice. 1973‘S. Harvester’ Corner of Playground i. viii. 74 A new jar of Oxford lime marmalade.
1837Dickens Pickw. xli, His legs..graced a pair of *Oxford-mixture trousers, made to show the full symmetry of those limbs. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey iii. 18 He wore a long Oxford mixture coat.
1841J. Rathborne (title) Are the Puseyites sincere? A letter most respectfully addressed to a right reverend catholic lord bishop on The *Oxford Movement. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. iv. 107 But there was another reason still,..which severed Mr. Rose from the Oxford Movement. a1890R. F. Littledale in Chambers's Encycl. (1901) IV. 359/2 The factor variously known as the Oxford or Tractarian movement, or by its advocates as the ‘Catholic Revival’. 1891Church Oxford Movement 1 What is called the Oxford or Tractarian movement began..in a vigorous effort for the immediate defence of the Church against serious dangers, arising from the violent and threatening temper of the days of the Reform Bill. 1854*Oxford ochre [see ochre n. 1]. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 430 A section of the ochre-pits at Shotover Hill, near Oxford, where the Oxford ochre is obtained.
1838Penny Cycl. XI. 138 Oolitic System..5 Portland oolite. 6. *Oxford oolite. 7. Bath oolite.
1856Hawthorne Jrnl. 31 Aug. in Passages from Eng. Note-Bks. (1870) II. 150 We looked also at the outside of the wall [of New College], and Mr. Parker..showed us a weed growing..hanging plentifully downward from a shallow root. It is called the *Oxford plant, being found only here, and not easily, if at all, introduced any⁓where else.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxvi. 637 *Oxford punch... Lemons..oranges..calf's foot jelly..white wine..French brandy..Jamaica rum [etc.]. 1877E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 322 Oxford punch.—The great characteristic of this punch is its having a quantity of calf's foot jelly dissolved in it. 1892Encycl. Pract. Cookery II. 69/1 Oxford punch.
1884W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 249/2 Senecio{ddd}squalidus. *Oxford Rag-wort. 1886G. C. Druce Flora Oxfordshire 158 Oxford Ragwort... Very plentiful in and around Oxford, where it was first noticed by Sir Joseph Banks. Dillenius sent seeds to Linnæus but whether he gathered them from the Oxford Garden or the wall of the town no memorandum exists. 1926Nat. Hist. Oxford District 72 A few brave adventitious plants may be seen on the walls, including the ubiquitous Oxford Ragwort. 1948Prime & Deacock Shorter Brit. Flora 149 Oxford Ragwort..; waste places, greatly on the increase. (This plant is very common on bombed sites in London.) 1969Nature 27 Sept. 1303/2 Oxford ragwort (Senecio squalidus) spread throughout the railway system after seeds had been dispersed from the Botanic Garden to Oxford station. 1973Gilmour & Walters Wild Flowers (ed. 5) xiii. 198 The Oxford ragwort..has achieved..an astonishing recent spread.
1764(title) The *Oxford sausage. 1877E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 100 The Oxford sausage is a crêpinette, can be made at home. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Jan. 6/2 (Advt.), Fresh Made Oxford Sausage, 3 lbs. for 32 c.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 596/1 *Oxford Scholar, five shillings (piece or sum): New Zealanders' rhyming s. on dollar: C. 20. Also from ca. 1870, in the S.W. of England. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 332 Oxford Scholar, dollar. 1960,1965Oxford scholar [see sense 2]. 1967Oxford scholar [see caser2].
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 717/1 *Oxford shirts—With stiff cuffs, soft turnover cuff or small wristband to link and button—each 12/9. 1959Listener 4 June 982/1 The cloth cap and the collarless Oxford shirt. 1971New Yorker 9 Oct. 29/2 (Advt.), Our own make long staple cotton oxford shirt.
[1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 742/2 Fancy cotton shirting... Oxford mat, best quality.] 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 697/2 *Oxford shirting (soft finish) 29 in. wide..1/1 Per yd. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 606/1 Oxford shirting, a plain-weave cotton fabric, generally striped, used for shirting. 1948G. L. Fraser Textiles by Britain 165 Oxford shirting, plain or fancy woven striped shirting cloth. [1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 46 (1754) 247, I have met them with bob-wigs and new shoes, Oxford-cut.] 1847New Monthly Mag. LXXX. ii. 457 High-lows (now called *Oxford shoes). 1870M. Bridgman Ro. Lynne I. xiii. 213 Patent-leather Oxford shoes. [1902Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 8/1 The shoes would be low-cut, black calf, laced oxfords.] 1839Hook in Liddon, etc. Life Pusey II. 467 Let it be erected by contributors to the *Oxford Tracts and their friends—or by any other title by which you would prefer to have yourselves called. 1870Allibone Dict. Eng. Lit. 1709/1 Dr. Pusey had given great offence to some, and equal satisfaction to others, by his connection with the Oxford Tracts movement.
1925Punch 4 Mar. 244 (caption) Perils of the Dance. The terror of the *Oxford trousers. 1937J. Laver Taste & Fashion xvii. 241 The advent of Oxford trousers in the middle twenties.
1942Florey & Jennings in Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Path. XXIII. 122 For those using the dilution method it may be stated that the ‘*Oxford unit’ is that amount of penicillin which when dissolved in 50 ml. of meat extract broth just inhibits completely the growth of the test strain of Staphylococcus aureus. 1948Wright & Montag Textbk. Pharmacol. & Therap. (ed. 4) xxxiii. 548 For the treatment of mild to moderately severe infections daily dosages of 80,000 to 120,000 Oxford units are sufficient. 1952W. T. Salter Textbk. Pharmacol. xlix. 1084/1 The new international unit and the old Oxford unit are very close.
1920A. Huxley Limbo 85 When the Military Representative spoke, he could hear again that wretched Nut's rendering of the Eton and *Oxford voice. 1924E. M. Forster Passage to India xxiv. 221 ‘We object to the presence of so many European ladies and gentlemen upon the platform,’ he said in an Oxford voice. 1931Atlantic Monthly Feb. 149/1 The pronunciation of the common people left its impress indelibly on the so-called best people, with a few languid drawls, terminal aws, clipped gs and feeble hs thrown in.., which..acquired the name of the Oxford voice.
1834W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. I. 23 This very pretty plant is a native of Italy, and is said to have been originally introduced into England by means of its seeds having been brought in some marble sculptures from that country to Oxford, where it has long established itself on the walls of the Colleges, gardens, &c. in such abundance as to have obtained the name of ‘*Oxford-weed.’. 1976C. Oman Oxford Childhood vii. 133 Mrs Pember was a qualified botanist and I was soon flattered by being sent up to the top of a crumbling wall..to get her specimens of Oxford Weed.
b. Used attrib. or as adj. to denote the characteristic manner, speech, behaviour, etc., of a present or former member of the University of Oxford; freq. = Oxford accent.
1877H. James Let. 28 Feb. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 375, I lunched the other day with Andrew Lang to meet J. Addington Symonds,—a mild, cultured man, with the Oxford perfume. 1897G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 108 Stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob. 1909P. Gibbs Street of Adventure iii. 37 ‘Because I tell you so,’ said Luttrell, with a touch of his Oxford manner. 1913A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 27 Mr. Lee had neither a double chin nor an Oxford manner. 1919J. B. Morton Barber of Putney ii. 24 Up and down one heard the Oxford drawl. 1922Joyce Ulysses 6 He thinks you're not a gentleman... Because he comes from Oxford. You know, Dedalus, you have the real Oxford manner. Ibid. 431 In youth's smart blue Oxford suit with white vestslips. 1926A. S. L. Farquharson in J. C. Wilson Statement & Inference I. p. xxv, ‘The trouble is that one feels life is so short, ars longa but philosophy seems very much longer.’ This is the scholar's last lesson, the clue perhaps to what is sometimes called Oxford irony. 1928D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away 152 But, in a voice more expostulatingly Oxford than ever, he said [etc.]. Ibid. 153 Jimmy got up, with a bit of an Oxford wriggle, and held out his hand. 1934Spectator 5 Jan. 18/2 Surely it is permissible to suggest..the Oxford Bleat by writing down the directions given me the other day as ‘past a whaite house, between the water-tah and the pah station’. 1937N. & Q. 12 June 428/1 What we term Oxford pronunciation, and wrongly so call it. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xvii. 189 A gentleman with an Oxford drawl..in darkest Hoxton. 1957G. Avery Warden's Niece viii. 153 A young man..clumsily trying to propel his punt from the stern instead of the conventional Oxford position in front. 1958B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties v. 74 If the worst came to the worst I could ‘rely on the Oxford manner’. 1960W. B. Gallie New University vi. 115 They were delighted by the fact that he so often appeared to be joking—for so they described Lindsay's elaborate Oxford irony.
2. ellipt. for Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford grey, marmalade, mixture, scholar, shirt, shoe, trousers, etc.
c1890in Amer. Mail Order Fashions (1961) 28/2 Women's tan Dongola Kid, square or pointed toe, fox heel Oxfords. French stay. 1890Illustr. London News 24 May in L. de Vries Victorian Advts. (1968) 51/3 New Range of Coloured Oxfords, Cambrics, and Calcuttas for Shirts and Pyjamas. 1902Farmer & Henley Slang V. 119/1 Oxford, a crown piece. 1903in S. Nowell-Smith Edwardian England (1964) facing p. 180 (Advt.), The ‘Oxford’. Blacking leather or glacé kid. 1914Glasgow Herald 7 Sept. 10/2 Glasgow firms manufacture..zephyrs, Oxfords, shirtings, and dress goods. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 July 16/4 (Advt.), A 4-ply worsted wool in shades of pink... Oxford. 1929G. Mitchell Mystery of Butcher's Shop xi. 120 He fell down, and tore chunks out of his Oxfords on the brambles. 1932New Yorker 11 June 45 Waterproof leather oxfords or ghillies..; suede oxfords at Brooks and Rogers Peet... Golf oxfords at Spalding [etc.]. 1945M. D. Potter Fiber to Fabric viii. 155 Oxford, a plain weave of medium and heavy weights. 1950W. Stevens Let. 21 Nov. (1967) 699, I look it up either at the office, where we have a Webster, or have someone look it up for me in the State library, where there is an Oxford. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin i. 8 His conservative black oxfords had cost him about as much as all the rest of his clothing. 1958[see beetle-crushers s.v. beetle n.2 5]. 1960‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick 103 ‘We'll say a quid deposit, returnable on return of the hat, and a straight charge of an Oxford for the loan. Right?’ ‘Right.’ The young man handed over his Oxford scholar. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 13 He rocked on his hand-lasted Oxfords. 1964J. Symons End of Solomon Grundy i. ii. 29 The routine of breakfast..Cooper's Oxford, the electric percolator. 1965Australasian Post 4 Mar. 46 From ‘dollar’ we have the rhyming slang ‘Oxford scholar’, which eventually became shortened to an ‘Oxford’. 1970Catal. L. L. Bean (Freeport, Maine) Fall 32 Heavy duty nylon oxford outside is waterproof. 1971D. E. Westlake I gave at the Office (1972) 139 Dressed in..new clothes—down to expensive black oxfords. 1972‘I. Drummond’ Frog in Moonflower 10 The Master..spread a piece of toast with Cooper's Oxford. 1976New Yorker 26 Jan. 52/3 It is like seeing a pair of oxfords suspended from an ornate chandelier. 1978Spectator (New Canaan High School, Connecticut) 66 Then I..pulled out four shirts: a turtleneck, a Lacoste ‘alligator’ shirt, a flannel shirt, and a wrinkled, white button-down Oxford.
b. The University of Oxford; collect., the members of the University; quasi-adj., belonging to or supporting the University. With specific adj., any of various school examinations conducted under the auspices of the University.
a1697Aubrey Wiltshire: Topogr. Coll. (1862) 17 At Oxford, (and I believe at Cambridge) the rod was frequently used by the Tutors and Deans. 1886H. Baumann Londinismen 129/2 Are you Oxford or Cambridge? 1899Beerbohm More 155, I was a modest, good⁓humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. 1916W. Owen Let. Apr. (1967) 389, I hear you are applying yourself to some solid study for the J[unior] Oxford. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. 1103/1 There is encouraging evidence elsewhere that young Oxford is beginning to recognize that mere cleverness is poetically sterile. 1966Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxford I. 17 Members of Oxford. |