@rickhasen @BryanAGarner @jeffstrabone OED probably more reliable than period dicts. And in any event, judges rely on dicts way too much.
Justice Scalia used dictionaries from the relevant time and there are hierarchies of dictionaries cc: @BryanAGarnerhttps://twitter.com/jeffstrabone/status/722880422863052800 …
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@NealGoldfarb@rickhasen@BryanAGarner Perhaps, but people in the past did not have the OED. They had Johnson, Webster, and others. -
@jeffstrabone@rickhasen@BryanAGarner The real Q re word-meaning is always, how is/was the word actually used, not what does dict say. >
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