The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language : A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological , edited by Rev. John Ogilvie (1797–1867), was an expansion of the 1841 second edition of Noah Webster 's American Dictionary . It was published by W. G. Blackie and Co . of Scotland, 1847–1850 in two large volumes.
6-506: The Imperial Dictionary may be: The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (Ogilvie, 1855; Annandale, 1882), or Webster's Imperial Dictionary based on it The Kangxi Dictionary of Chinese (17th century) Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1863) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-483: The English Language With the addition of a third supplement volume in 1855, Ogilvie increased Webster's 70,000 word coverage to over 100,000. He included words from science , technology , and the arts ; much British usage omitted by Webster; an unusual number of provincial and Scottish words; and added quotations and encyclopedic information for many words. With over 2,000 woodcut illustrations, it
18-562: The compilation of the Imperial Dictionary , notice is hereby given that arrangement has been made with the proprietors of such copyright matter for the sale of this work in this country. The Century Co. May 1st, 1883. The Century Company acquired rights to Annandale's Imperial and used it as the basis for the much larger American work, the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia , published 1889–1891. An adaptation of
24-567: The time. This edition went through numerous printings in various forms well into the twentieth century. Due to disputes with the publisher of Webster's American Dictionary ( G. & C. Merriam Company ), the American edition of the Imperial , published by The Century Company of New York in 1883, contained a copyright notice stating: Certain owners of American copyrights having claimed that undue use of matter so protected has been made in
30-476: The title Imperial Dictionary . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_Dictionary&oldid=608034640 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Imperial Dictionary of
36-412: Was the first significantly illustrated dictionary, setting the trend which continues today. A revised and expanded edition by Charles Annandale was published in 1882 at London in four volumes, over 3,000 pages, with about 130,000 entries, revised definitions and etymologies, and 3,000 illustrations. Although the vocabulary coverage was small by today's standards, it was the largest English dictionary at
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