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biographical
adjective
uk/ˌbaɪ.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌbaɪ.oʊˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
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noun[C]
uk/ˈdɪk.ʃən.ər.i/us/ˈdɪk.ʃən.er.i/
a book that contains a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings, or gives a word for them in another language; an electronic product giving similar information on a computer, ...
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That this is intended to be something more than abiographicaldictionaryis evidenced by the arrangement of the entries chronologically, by each subject's year of birth, rather than alphabetically.
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In this sense, the form of the book tends toward being both that of abiographicaldictionaryand a chronicle.
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He also published a remarkablebiographicaldictionaryand other works.
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Most recently he has completed a 53-volumebiographicaldictionaryof the "muhaddithat", the female scholars of "hadith".
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The archaeology of such biographical dictionaries celebrates scholarship but also exposes pedantry, populism, and commercialism.
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Several useful and thorough bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, and discographies were initially published in an attempt to provide future scholars with valuable source information.
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By including living persons, the reference lists also chip away at another boundary of former historical biographical dictionaries.
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Contemporary obituaries have long influenced not only the scope, but the prose of biographical dictionaries.
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The present study utilizes a different method, intertextuality, by putting various biographical dictionaries in dialogue with one another to discern underlying structures and presuppositions of each author.
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She stands for thousands of women in modern and contemporary historiography, and has had several biographies in biographical dictionaries.
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This time period saw the emergence of the genre of "tabaqat" (biographical dictionaries or biographical compendia).
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Nadwi counts more than 8000 based on the biographical dictionaries of the classical and medieval period.
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