![]() ![]() The degree of this dependence varies greatly with the kind of word treated, the difference between cyclopaedic and dic¬tionary treatment varies with it, and the line of distinction is accordingly a fluctuating and dubious one. The book is designed as a dictionary, and not as an encyclopaedia that is, the uses of words and phrases as such are its subject matter, and it is concerned with giving information about the things for which those words and phrases stand only so far as correct use of the words depends upon knowledge of the things. HE steady advance towards completion of the great Oxford English Dictionary has made it possible for the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to authorize the preparation and issue of this book, which in its own province and on its own scale uses the materials and follows the methods by which the Oxford editors have revolution¬ized lexicography.
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