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| | A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A Dictionary of the English Language, one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was prepared by Samuel Johnson and published on April 15, 1755. | | | Johnson's dictionary was still considered authoritative until the appearance of the Oxford English Dictionary at the end of the nineteenth century. | | | In English (among others) John Cowell's Interpreter, a law dictionary, was published in 1607, Edward Phillips' The new world of English words came out in 1658 and a dictionary of 40,000 words had been prepared in 1721 by Nathan Bailey, though none were as comprehensive in breadth or style as Johnson's. |
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| | Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary |
| | Much less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance, or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself, and imitate those changes, which will again be changed, while imitation is employed in observing them. | | | The French language has visibly changed under the inspection of the academy; the stile of Amelot's translation of father Paul is observed by Le Courayer to be un peu passè; and no Italian will maintain, that the diction of any modern writer is not perceptibly different from that of Boccace, Machiavel, or Caro. | | | Swift, in his petty treatise on the English language, allows that new words must sometimes be introduced, but proposes that none should be suffered to become obsolete. |
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| | BBC - Staffordshire - Dr Johnson's Dictionary |
| | Dr Johnson's dictionary wasn't the first to be published, but it's the one that all the poets and authors turned to for help and it's the basis of the books that we use today. | | | His father was a book seller, so books and the love of language were in his blood. | | | But much of the credit for its emergence must go to Dr Samuel Johnson, the Staffordshire man who produced the original "Dictionary Of The English Language" 250 years ago. |
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| | A Dictionary of the English Language -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | A Dictionary of the English Language included a history of the language, a grammar, and an extensive list of words representing basic general vocabulary, based on the best conversation of contemporary London and the normal usage of respected writers. | | | Its strength lay in two features: the original, carefully divided and ordered, elegantly formulated definitions of the main word stock of the language; and the copious citation of quotations from the entire range of English literature, which served in support and illustration and which exemplified the different shades of meaning of a particular word. | | | Dictionary of the English Language, A. Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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| | Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 |
| | The outcomes of the Proto-Semitic consonants in Akkadian, Ethiopic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic are illustrated in the table "Proto-Semitic Sound Correspondences". | | | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. | | | This Appendix of Semitic Roots, while by no means the first comparative Semitic glossary, is the first such work to attempt systematically to give reconstructed forms and meanings for such a wide variety of roots and words. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
| | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. | | | The AHD was edited by William Morris and relied on a usage panel of 105 writers, speakers, and eminent persons for usage notes. | | | Citations were based on a million word, three-line citation database prepared by Brown University linguist Henry Kucera. |
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| | ENCARTA WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
| | This new edition is published in England as the Bloomsbury English Dictionary with an ISBN of 0747562431.This edition is the edition for the United States and is published by Bloomsbury USA with the ISBN of 1582345104. | | | The prior edition of this dictionary was called the Encarta World English Dictionary, published by Saint Martins Press - ISBN: 031222222x. | | | With 11,000 new words and meanings, this new edition of the Encarta Webster’s captures a worldwide view of the English language as it’s used today. |
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| | BOOKFORUM Oct/Nov 2005 |
| | While Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, which celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary this year, is a greatly admired book, it is also surely one of the least read. | | | The Dictionary included over 114,000 quotations; a full third of these were from Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, helping to establish the importance of literary evidence for dictionaries and the importance of these writers for the future. | | | Joseph Addison had even begun work on a dictionary with quotations from literature, and Pope had expressed interest in the project as well. |
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| | Dictionary of the English Language |
| | He was the supreme savant of the English language, the master of its history, its roots, and its beauty. | | | This is their conversation, shortly after Johnson completed his monumental Dictionary of the English Language, which he assembled single-handedly, with its 40,000 definitions, and 114,000 quotes, drawn from every field of learning and literature --- a project which cost him nine years of labor, all of which was well known to his interrogator: | | | Why, Sir, my Dictionary shows you the accent of words, if you can but remember them. |
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http://www.ralphmag.org/saml-johnson.html
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| | HEL Website |
| | Links to pages on English, Afrikaans, Frisian, Dutch, English, Scots, and Pidgins and Creoles.... | | | Studies in the History of the English Language | | | (Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography of ME Prose and Verse, and and extensive collection of ME prose and verse texts). |
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| | American Dictionary of the English Language -- July 1997 Education Reporter |
| | The Foundation for American Christian Education has republished Noah Webster's original 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in a facsimile edition. | | | American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828, Facsimile First Edition, 1995, Foundation for American Christian Education - Publishers, San Francisco, CA, $67.20, cloth. | | | Our nation's Christian heritage and the Christian philosophy of life, government, and education are reflected throughout the pages of his 1828 dictionary. |
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| | A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM - Cambridge University Press |
| | Samuel Johnson produced his famous Dictionary in 1755 and issued a significantly revised Fourth Edition in 1773. | | | A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM | | | • The first fully accessible edition of one of the major foundations of the English language |
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| | Chinese-English electronic dictionary. Language software for PDA. |
| | This dictionary is not only an aid in language learning, but also a travel guide! | | | The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, with a expanded vocabulary | | | This translator has the rare ability of speaking in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and English. |
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| | American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
| | The first edition of The American Heritage Dictionary was a national bestseller 25 years ago, selling one million copies in twelve months. | | | The content of this new edition reflects the changing language as it has been influenced in the last ten years by major societal changes. | | | Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com |
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| | ENG170: The English Language |
| | All searches for the historical development of the meaning of words in the English language should begin with the Oxford English Dictionary. | | | Always begin by reading the preface and introduction of each edition of your dictionary. | | | ref PE 1689.W3 (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920+ |
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| | Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language |
| | Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. | | | BACK to Gray's poem, the "Elegy on a Country Churchyard," that may allude to, imitate, or plagiarize such dictionary entries. | | | Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language |
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| | American Dictionary of the English Language - Exodus Provisions |
| | This is the only dictionary available today that defines every word both in the original language and from its biblical usage. | | | This is the real deal, a facsimile of the original 1828 edition, with an embossed forest green vellum hardcover, and approximately 2,000 pages full of references giving God His rightful place in our lives, society, and language. | | | MARRIAGE: The act of uniting a man and a woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. |
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| | 2X Media - arabic english dictionary online - dictionary english arabic online language translation |
| | english arabic online dictionary translator english arabic online dictionary translator perceiving, gan done well before become parents whose mimetic movements, mistrust that the same well, and | | | arabic english dictionary online arabic dictionary english free online © Copyright www.language2academy.com 2003. | | | arabic english dictionary online, infos about arabic english dictionary onli |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Longman Dictionary of the English Language: Books |
| | This revised edition explains the subtleties of the English language. | | | Amazon.co.uk: Longman Dictionary of the English Language: Books | | | It is based on the analysis of many millions of words from the computerized Lancaster Corpus which is updated daily with new words sent in by members of the public as part of the Wordwatch scheme. |
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| | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:American Heritage Publishing Company :0395825172:eCampus.com |
| | Discover the richness of the English language with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition, available in a book and CD-ROM package. | | | The all-new, full-color 4th Edition includes over 10,000 new words and senses; 4,000 photographs, illustrations, and maps; full etymologies; a revised appendix of Indo-European Roots; an all-new appendix of Semitic roots; over 450 new and revised usage notes; 100 regional notes; and a new note feature, Our Living Language. | | | The American Heritage?Dictionary of the English Language will meet all your dictionary needs--whether at work, at school, or at home. |
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| | 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster |
| | Eager for his fellow citizens to be free from erring ideas which were disseminated through careless or merely secular use of language, Dr. Webster's dictionary is a help to Biblical scholarship and reasoning skills. | | | If you love WORDS and "THE WORD," you will not only love this dictionary, you will find it INDISPENSABLE!!!!! | | | Webster considered "education useless without the Bible" and while he cautioned against too extensive use of the Bible in schools as "tending to irreverance," he reiterated, "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a freegovernment, ought to be instructed... |
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| | Noah Webster's Original American Dictionary of the English Language |
| | Noah Webster claimed to have coined only one word - demoralize, which he defined: "To corrupt or undermine the morals of; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt in morals." | | | For more discussion on the politics of words, read a recent edition of our newsletter Lawfully Speaking here: | | | The danger of this practice is the removal of vast bodies of knowledge and wisdom from public access. |
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| | Online Etymology Dictionary |
| | This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries. | | | This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. | | | The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). |
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| | Random House Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This edition adopted the Merriam-Webster Collegiate innovation of adding dates for the entry of words into the language. | | | Their first dictionary was Clarence Barnhart's American College Dictionary, published in 1947, and based primarily on The New Century Dictionary, an abridgement of the Century. | | | Under editors Jess Stein and Laurence Urdang, they augmented the American College Dictionary with large numbers of proper names, and published it in 1966 as the first edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language
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| | Variation and Change in Our Living Language. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. ... |
| | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. | | | One area in which linguists have made considerable progress over the past century—especially during the last 40 years—is our ability to study language change as it is taking place, usually through careful attention to variations in regional and social usage that are both the harbingers and manifestations of change. | | | The change taking place in constructions involving as far as has been demonstrated not only in America, where it seems to be most advanced, but also in England and other parts of the English-speaking world. |
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| | American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - KutjaraWiki |
| | The AHD symbols may correspond to a different IPA symbol, depending on the dialect. | | | AHD makes use of its own set of symbols to describe pronunciation. | | | The choice of a symbol for each phoneme is based on English orthography, and so is not dialect specific. |
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| | An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language |
| | This classic reference contains most of the more common words used in everyday English conversation, plus slang, archaic words and phrases, coined words and foreign words common in English. | | | Useful not only to students of comparative philogy and early English, this volume will intrigue everyone with an interest in the origin, history, and development of the English language. | | | Practical and reliable, this well-known reference traces English words back to their Indo-European roots. |
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| | KU Libraries - Dictionary of the English Language |
| | This CD-ROM makes available transcriptions and facsimiles of the full text of both the first (1755) and fourth (1773) editions of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. | | | KU Libraries - Dictionary of the English Language | | | The software allows rapid searching of both Editions of the Dictionary for words, phrases, headwords, quotations and source-authors. |
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| | To make more keen; stimulate: The frying bacon whetted my appetite. | | | The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. | | | - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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| | ISO Standard Dictionary of the English Language - School Lounge |
| | School Lounge > English Forum > English General Discussion | | | ISO Standard Dictionary of the English Language - School Lounge | | | Richard Maurer added two more enhancements to the ISO standard dictionary idea: (1) The ability to make the sense meaning subscripts visible, or invisible, as the document is being read on a computer. |
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| | Find in a Library: An American dictionary of the English language: intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and ... |
| | Find in a Library: An American dictionary of the English language: intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. | | | An American dictionary of the English language: intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. | | | To which are prefixed, an introductory dissertation on the origin, history and connection of the languages of Western Asia and of Europe, and a concise grammar of the English language. |
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| | Dictionary - English Language School Talking Dictionary |
| | Learn English from home if you cannot attend an English language school. | | | It is our intention to assist the study of the English language by providing links to online dictionaries for those who may not be able to attend an English language school. | | | An online dictionary (and some people spell this dictonary!) such as a French dictionary, English dictionary, or even an online translation service, can be indispensable when reading large tracts of text. |
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| | Universal Language Dictionary Project |
| | Each language is assigned a 3-character "tag"; this should be the first 3 letters of the language's actual name (e.g. | | | Pronouns, structural particles, articles, derivational affixes and similar morphemes are difficult to translate from one language to another, and every language has a different array of them, depending on its characteristics. | | | However, each item has a three-character hexadecimal serial number, which makes possible the automated generation of an index for each language included. |
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| | Slang Dictionary - Define Your Language Today |
| | Slang Dictionary is an urban dictionary for the everyday english language with your word definition. | | | Unlike a conventional book publish slang dictionary, it could take years for a new slang word to enter its pages. | | | Editors of this dictionary try to keep it as tasteful as possible, but some language might be offensive to some readers. |
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| | yourDictionary.com • Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal |
| | Indo-European Languages and RootsThe origin of English and many other languages. | | | Quick Lookup Database: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. | | | Speak with other language lovers and professional linguists about any aspect of language. |
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| | Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK |
| | Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom | | | Reproduction of the dictionary, text and graphics, in whole or part form, is expressly forbidden without prior permission from Ted Duckworth. | | | Should you wish to do further research I have presented a selection of good source material... |
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| | Definitions Courtesy of Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary |
| | **Further note by LEXREX: Posse Commitatus is defined in Black's Law Dictionary, Third Edition (1933) as: Lat. | | | The entire population of a country above the age of fifteen, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases; as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arresting felons, etc. 1 Bl. | | | Definitions courtesy of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. |
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| | Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, |
| | Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, | | | Clear, readable, Times Roman text with italics and boldface type used for emphasis. | | | The gazetteer and biographical dictionary seen in the New International have been omitted from this edition. |
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| | Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus |
| | Available in both a Desktop Edition and an Online Edition, the Visual Thesaurus is a marvelous way to improve your vocabulary and your understanding of the English language. | | | The Visual Thesaurus is a dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface that encourages exploration and learning. |
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| | HCMC_ARC: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language |
| | HCMC_ARC: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language | | | This resource should appear in a popup window. | | | HCMC_ARC » Resources » American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language |
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| | Merriam-Webster Online |
| | Have you spotted a new word or a new sense for an old word that hasn't made it into the dictionary yet? | | | We've sorted through thousands of user hits from Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary to find the ten words that have most consistently piqued your curiosity this past year. | | | Great navigation and easy-to-read text make the iPod |
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| | Description of: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
| | Connect to American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | | | Description of: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | | | Contains over 90,000 entries featuring 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes |
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