Product Details
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Published on: 2003-07
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Number of items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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1664 pages
Customer Reviews
A favorable lexicon for the parsimonious consumer
A compendium of 225,000 definitions advances itself as an
uncommonly intimidating treatise but, lo, I garnered the
tenacity to venture forth on an arduous quest of nigh
incomprehensible magnitude. My pursuit of rhetorical
erudition was both prolonged and tortuous. Indeed, I must
yield that the whimsy of surrender infrequently manifested
itself as an alluring courtesan of nectarous temptation.
Nevertheless, my resolve was but consolidated when I
observed a distention in the radius of my parlance. Indeed,
I can affirm without recourse to fallacy that the juncture
of my undertakings expeditiously culminated prior to the
desistance of the tertiary synodic month.
This exhaustive scholastic glossary of the English idiom was
most appeasing to my propensity for the conglomerative
acquisition of wisdom (although Doreen has experienced
sufficient discombublation as to articulate the apprehension
that my manner of discourse is presently akin to that of a
bovine sphincter).
A helpful reference book that contains more than definitions
I have been using this dictionary for many years. I have
gone through a few editions. There are features that this
dictionary that The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second
Edition does not contain. First of all, the thumb tabs are
quite helpful and time saving. Next, would be the word
origins, country and languages when applicable, and year
that it actually became a word. Followed by the
pronunciation keys and parts of speech. In some cases, they
also have word variations.
The only reason that I had bought the Oxford one was because
this dictionary has words missing that I feel should be
included. If a larger more updated version of this becomes
available, I will be happy to purchase it.
Wonderful edition
This is a wonderful edition to any home library. The English
language is well represented and defined. It is always by my
side when writing.
George Ray Houston
Author: Southern Poetry |
