dictionary on historical principles

dictionary on historical principles (plural dictionaries on historical principles)

1. (lexicography) A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
   • 2017, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes‎, page 2:

     As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of these various features of the lexis over time, from the earliest days of the language to present.

• historical dictionary