App Profile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary USA

IICorinthians10:3-6

Rating: 4/5

I was looking up the word LEAVE in this app and it was not there. I have the Webster's 1828 Dictionary on my bookshelf so I took it out and looked it up in there. Sure enough it was there in between LEATHERY and LEAVED. I think you need to do an update to include the word LEAVE in your app.

Mfrilli

Rating: 1/5

The app updated and has now taken out the scripture references....from where the definitions originated. Better get yourself a hard copy of this and a King James Bible too because this is the way it's going.

Pjmorris05

Rating: 5/5

First of all: THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE DICTIONARY! It will not have modern words/definitions! You will be disappointed if you want that! Having said that, I have found this unique dictionary to be incredibly useful, when trying to understand words from a different era. It is insightful how a word can evolve over time and have a different meaning from one time period to another. I don’t like assuming what author’s are trying to say- and interpret their words through MY viewpoint. So when I’m reading American Authors at the turn of the century this dictionary is so enlightening! (Side-Note: as to where this dictionary originated) Daniel Webster (the author) felt compelled to write a dictionary for Americans and set a standard for how to spell and define words from an American’s point of view. Prior to his dictionary there was quite a bit of confusion for what a standard was for so many words that were spoken/written in America. You can imagine how school teachers, writers, lawyers, judges an so forth had a hard time communicating/educating. For this reason Webster took it upon himself to painstakingly work on a dictionary! Which makes him a very intriguing man to me. As a lot of men from his time- he was not boxed in by just one career or fixated on One speciality- but rather was multifaceted. This dictionary is a direct result of how American English broke from England’s way of spelling and vernacular.