[Ads-l] Antedating of "Semiotic" (Noun)

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Dec 17 12:40:39 UTC 2022


semiotic, n. (OED c1897)

1820 Quarterly Christian Spectator Jan. 9 (Google Books)  That branch of the sciences which relates to the signs of Ideas has been called Semiotic.

Fred Shapiro



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