Origin and history of anonymous

democratization (if we may use the word) of literature proposes to itself in this country, is to store the minds of the many, of the anonymous...

Also used of plaintiffs or defendants who have reason to be anonymous....

Meaning "prostitute's customer" is from 1911, probably from the common, and thus anonymous, name by which they identified...

[anonymous, "Emily, or the History of a Natural Daughter," 1761] This arietta, however, she no sooner began to perform,...

Colloquial use for "anonymous people in authority" is attested from 1886. They say for "it is said" is in Milton....

No history of the subject would be complete without some reference to the semilegendary, almost anonymous Murphy ( floreat...

[Century Dictionary] Long, detailed lists of them often are given, but the original reference (in an anonymous history of...

"online journal," 1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1993 but in the sense "file containing a detailed record of each request received by a web server"), from (World Wide) Web (n.) + log (n.2). Joe Bloggs (c. 1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (comp

c. 1200, devocioun, "profound religious emotion, awe, reverence," from Old French devocion "devotion, piety" and directly from Latin devotionem (nominative devotio), noun of action from past-participle stem of devovere "dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly," fro

1590s, "nut of the pistachio tree," from Italian pistacchio, from Latin pistacium "pistachio nut," from Greek pistakion "pistachio nut," from pistakē "pistachio tree," from Persian pistah "pistachio." Borrowed earlier in English as pystace, pistace (mid-15c.), from Old French pis