According to Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, viability of a fetus means having reached such a stage of development as to be capable of living, under normal conditions, outside the uterus.
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You can count the number of entries listed in unabridged dictionaries, but many would consider it to be a semi-pointless exercise . . . talk ) 01 : 49, 13 September 2008 ( UTC)
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A large unabridged dictionary, like the Kangxi Dictionary, contains over 40, 000 characters, including obscure, variant, rare, and archaic characters; fewer than a quarter of these characters are now commonly used.
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:: P . S . ARTFL allows you to search an unabridged dictionary with all kinds of operators, so you can search for word-endings, alternate word-middles, etc . ( example ).
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In the 1910 census, my grandmother's occupation was listed as " crocher . " I do not find this term in the unabridged dictionary, nor did I find a match in on-line search.
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For example, the International Lilac Society at www . lilacs . freeservers . com lists several lilac nurseries as well as an unabridged dictionary of lilacs complete with color chart, flower-form data and date of origin.
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Citing an old unabridged dictionary is a good way to find cover for just about anything, but misguide no longer has anything to do with most of the synonyms you cited, and certainly not " misbehave ."
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:In both the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and in the American Heritage Dictionary ( both on line ), " manual " is given only one pronunciation for all meanings : " man'yoo-el ".
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Its chief value is that an extensive range of terms related to a given topic can be found in one place for handy reference and quick browsing, as opposed to repeated look-up in a compendious resource like an unabridged dictionary.
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""'Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary " "'is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as " The Random House Dictionary of the English Language : The Unabridged Edition ".
