A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are deduced from their Originals and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers to which are prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar, by Samuel Johnson, A.M., in Two Volumes.
Johnson compiled examples of usage, and attempted to capture all words in use (not just the hard ones, for example, as earlier lexicographers had done)
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