English Explanatory Dictionary

Fenwickian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to a system of language learning, published in 1830 by Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de Porquet, that encouraged English people to learn French by translating English sentences into French, rather than the other way round.

Word forms

Fenwickian

Etymology

From Fenwick + -ian.

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