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The Century Dictionary is based on The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, edited by Rev. John Ogilvie (1797–1867) and published by W. G. Blackie and Co. of Scotland, 1847–1850, which in turn is an expansion of the 1841 second edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary. [1]
Anglo-American Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1902) - an unauthorized reprint of portions of the Encyclopedia Britannica with an unrelated dictionary attached. (Link includes vols. 2-4, 6-9, 11-12) New American Comprehensive Encyclopedia (1906) (Link includes vols. 1, 3 and 4) Century Book of Facts (1902) a quasi-annual one volume work
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...
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Do you own a dictionary anymore? For years, I schlepped a red hardbound Merriam-Webster's tome, along with a dogeared Roget's Thesaurus, to every newsroom cubicle I worked at across the country.
The American College Dictionary was the first Random House dictionary and was later expanded to create the Random House Dictionary of the English Language.First published in 1947, The American College Dictionary was edited by Clarence Barnhart based on the 1927 New Century Dictionary.
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia link goes to vols. 2, 5 and 6 (1901) Imperial Reference Library (1901) Columbian Cyclopaedia (1899) Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1903) New Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1906) United Editors Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1909) United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia (1911) Werner's Universal ...
It was the most popular English dictionary of the eighteenth century until the publication of Samuel Johnson's massive dictionary in 1755. As an indicator of its popularity, the dictionary reached its 20th edition in 1763 [1] and its 27th edition in 1794. [2] Its last edition (30th) was in 1802. It was a little over 900 pages long.