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Oxford English Dictionary   /ˈɑksfərd ˈɪŋglɪʃ dˈɪkʃənˌɛri/   Listen
Oxford English Dictionary

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1.
An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.  Synonyms: O.E.D., OED.





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... notice-boards by saying that, literature being personal, and men various—and even the "Oxford English Dictionary" being no Canonical book—man's use or defiance of the dictionary depends for its justification on nothing but his success: adding that, since it takes all kinds to make a world, or a literature, his success will probably depend on the ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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