dictionary on historical principles

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dictionary on historical principles (plural dictionaries on historical principles)

  1. (lexicography) A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
    • 2017, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes[1], page 2:
      As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of these various features of the lexis over time, from the earliest days of the language to present.

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