I’m pretty sure that the first encyclopedia Britannica referred to California as a island.
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So, the King James Version of dictionaries?
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May I recommend Ambrose Bierce?
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You beat me to it!
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Don't throw it away yet, Clarence Thomas will end up citing it in his next opinion
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Many do, and fairly - - because it was the dictionary in use at the time the Constitution was written, and the best resource for what words meant.
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Perhaps something more up to date? Like an OED first edition from 1928?
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how did he define "reptile"?
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Was going to ask that! Prior to Darwin was not well understood that non-interbreeding species were related by ancestry. So a “reptile” was likely anything having physical characteristics similar to other known reptiles
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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
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