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Definition of O.e.d.
1. Noun. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of O.e.d.
Literary usage of O.e.d.
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"OED. 61 a Stamens 6 or 12, symmetrical with the 6 ovary-cells. ... OED. 131 f
Flowers in a long naked spike. Stamens 6 or 7. ..."
2. Sophocles: with English notes by Sophocles, Fredericus H. M. Blaydes, Frederick Apthorp Paley (1859)
"The variants in Aj. and Oed. are given by Erf. Agrees mostly with D ... Contains Aj.
El. Oed. Used by Burton and occasionally by Elmsley (in Oed. ..."