Description:

• The famous historical dictionary of English, providing not only the current meanings of words, but also their development through time.
• Includes the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
• The full text search allows searching by full text, definitions, etymologies, quotations, quotation date, quotation author, quotation work, and quotation text.
• Guide to the OED.

Dates of Coverage: circa 1150

Truncation Symbol: * for multiple characters or ? for a single character

Concurrent Users: unlimited

Other info: always proxy off-campus, provides full text

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