A Standard Dictionary of the English Language | dictionary by Funk | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• In Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries
  …Funk & Wagnalls dictionary was A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893). It espoused four policies pertinent to its initial and future publications: the ordering of definitions according to current, rather than historical, usage; the appearance of etymologies at the end of definitions, rather than at the beginning; the…
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  In Isaac Kauffman Funk
  …firm became best known for A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed., 1893; subsequent editions entitled A New Standard Dictionary of the English Language).
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  In dictionary: Since 1828
  …Funk, in 1893, brought out A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, its chief innovation being the giving of definitions in the order of their importance, not the historical order.
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