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Unabridged   /ˌənəbrˈɪdʒd/   Listen
Unabridged

adjective
1.
(used of texts) not shortened.
noun
1.
A dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary.  Synonym: unabridged dictionary.



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... Syn. {epoch}. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but 'era' more often connotes a span of time rather than a point in time, whereas the reverse is true for {epoch}. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... any thought to the difference between the words "understanding" and "comprehending," and when this was written was not satisfied in my own mind that comprehend did mean more than understand. On the following day I consulted Worcester's Unabridged Dictionary and to my surprise, under the word "comprehend" found this note: "Comprehend has a more extensive meaning than understand or apprehend." So in this case, as in several others I have not time to cite here, the intelligence which moved my hand to write gave me knowledge which I ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... on the parlor table of the hotels of other cities is a book of engravings or a copy of the Bible. In some of the Boston hotels, the prominent book on the parlor table is "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary." You may be left in doubt about the Bostonian's character, but need not doubt his capacity to parse a sentence, or spell without any resemblance of blunder the ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage
... Ferdinand in the servants' hall to the flushed footman who lay upon a what-not, sipping a glass of ale and reading a new and unabridged farthing edition of Carlyle's French Revolution, "Gustavus, Mrs. Merillia has been and gone to the Gaiety Theatre to-night. We expect her back at eleven-thirty sharp. She may need assistance ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens
... first published in 1971, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, in 1917 under the title Problems of Mysticism and ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer


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