Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY - ( also the OED ) a very large historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY - ˌOxford ˌEnglish ˈDictionary, the BrE AmE abbreviation, OED a very large dictionary of English, started in the 1880s, which ….More meanings of this word and English-Russian, Russian-English translations for the word «OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY» in dictionaries.
When all this was superadded the principle of historical illustration, introduced by Richardson, it became inevitable that any adequate dictionary of English must be one of the larger books of the world. The next stage is marked by Johnson’s systematic use of quotations to illustrate and justify the definitions, the many omissions still existing in the vocabulary being partly filled by later supplementary works on the same lines. The principle of general inclusion was practically accepted by Kersey and Bailey. The widening of this arrow range during the seventeenth century is made obvious by the steady increase in size through Ballokar, Cockeram, Blount, and Phillips until the eighteenth. The earlier dictionary makers followed in the line of the old glossaries and directed their attention to such words as were likely to be unfamiliar to the ordinary man.
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