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Thisyear we are continuing our celebration of the 150th anniversary of th
e great 1864 revisionof Webster's Unabridged Dictionary – the first major revision of Daniel Webster's dictionary after his death. In many ways it came to define what it means to be an unabridged dictionary for generations to come.
More than 50,000 new quotations were collected for the revision. They could not all be included in the book, but the 1864 edition did include more quotations than any English-language dictionary ever had before. In addition to the quantity, the quality of the quotations is also noteworthy. The selectors had a fine eye for quotations that not only illustrated words well but were also delightful to conside