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After Whitney's death in edition also appeared around this time, usually in 5 double volumes (rarely, in 10 single volumes) plus one additional for the Cyclopedia. The completed dictionary contained over 500,000 entries, more than ''Webster's New International'' or ''Funk and Wagnalls New Standard'', the largest other dictionaries of the period. Each form of a word was treated separately, and liberal numbers of quotations and additional information were included to support the definitions. In its Etymologies , Greek Word s were not Transliterated . Although the dictionary was never again revised or expanded, an abridged edition with new words, ''The New Century Dictionary'' (edited by H.G. Emery and K.G. Brewster; revision editor, Catherine B. Avery,) was published by Appleton-Century-Crofts of New York in 1927 , and reprinted in various forms for several decades. The three volume "New Century Cyclopedia of Names," an expansion of the 1894 volume, was published in 1954 , edited by Clarence Barnhart . The ''Century Dictionary'' was admired for the quality of its entries, the craftsmanship in its design, Typography , and Binding , and its excellent illustrations. It has been used as an information source for the makers of many later dictionaries, including editors of the '' Oxford English Dictionary '', who cited it over 2,000 times in the first edition. In 1913, Stewart Archer Steger from the University of Virginia published his Ph.D. dissertation "American Dictionaries" and devoted a 14-page Chapter VI on ''Century Dictionary''. He concluded the chapter with these words: "Altogether, ''The Century Dictionary'' far surpasses anything in American lexicography". EXTERNAL LINKS The complete ''Century Dictionary'' can be found online at:
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