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- ↑ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.
- ↑ Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers (2007, Saunders)
- ↑ Collins, Dictionary. "Collins Dictionary". collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ↑ Alastair Hamilton, After Marracci: The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of The Qur’an in Northern Europe from the Late 17thC to the Early 19thC, The Warburg Institute
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