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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dictionary \Dic"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl {Dictionaries}. [Cf. F.
dictionnaire See {Diction}.]
1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged
alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a
lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and
noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time
the materials of a dictionary --Johnson.
2. Hence a book containing the words belonging to any system
or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as a
dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical
dictionary
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