James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations.

It will not be a man unless you eat salt with him, that is, as long as you know him, you know him.

My son is my son until there is a wife, / but my daughter, my daughter, all the days of her life

In Prele Pe Pe Pe Les Oreil, a memorial mass will be caught in the ear as a person has a pot handle.

Si leonina Perris is not satisfied, if the skin of the asspnda vulpina lion is not enough, we need to sew the fox

Reference script, such as those implemented in Johnson Dictionary and later Oxford English Dictionary. Its purpose and structure are readable dictionaries. In a sense, these dictionaries are thematic collections, "themes" are words and quotations. You should state the meaning. Of course, without having to worry about other dictionary devices, you can read citations of printed pages carefully. However, most readers come and go between editing comments (definition, etymology, suggestions for use) and quotes. This is the ultimate satisfying quality of a quoted dictionary.

In 1598, John Florio published a dictionary of Italian and English. This is the first English dictionary giving meaning to words using quotations ("Illustrations"); so far, these dictionaries do not have actual word definitions. This was greatly changed with the alphabet of the table of principal, Robert Cawdrey, announced in 1604. It contains only 2,449 words, and there are no words beginning with W, X or Y, but this is the first English dictionary.

Johnson is also not the first dictionary to use literary quotes to explain meaning and usage. Except for the major early modern dictionaries published in France, Italy and Portugal, the Italian-English dictionary of John Florio Waldes' Worlde was the first English dictionary using at least part of the 1598 quotation. It is not the last Johnson. Johnson is well thought of introducing meaning differences in dictionary entries, but Benjamin Martin used them in Lingua Britannica Reformata issued in 1749. Perhaps he got this idea from Johnson's dictionary program in 1747. Johnson says, "When you first describe the meaning of each word, first express the natural and original meaning, then the meaning of the result" Looking back, it is a good plan, no matter who raises it No one doubts that.