Polyglot Definition

Polyglot Sentence Examples

• This station is the centre of a polyglot circuit or district 150 m.

• The Syriac and Arabic versions, printed in the London Polyglot, are literal.

• These speeches were generally not recorded by the stenographer; the Sla y s protected themselves against this by gradually getting it accepted that polyglot stenographers should be appointed, that their speeches should be translated, and that they should be added as appendices to the parliamentary reports in the correct national language; finally it was resolved (June 1917) that all speeches should be reported verbatim in the parliamentary reports, in the language in which they were delivered.

• Bibl., Bible Dict., and Jewish Encyc. The Greek text is best given in Swete iii., and the Syriac will be found in Walton's Polyglot, Lagarde and Neubauer's Tobit.

• In Spain Hebrew learning was promoted by Cardinal Ximenes, the patron of the Complutensian Polyglot.