the #language of #dictionaries

A Trusted #Lexicographer can, for those who are not aware, change the terms of various binding contracts and laws

When a binding contract is written that may pass from generation to generation, it is important to know what those words meat to the most people party to that contract ---whether they personally sign it or sign it via a representative.

Using more modern dictionaries, especially several generations separated from those who originally contracted the document, may come to conclusions quite contrary to what the actual terms intended, simply by applying the ever-changing definitions to the fixed terms of a contract.

Several cases in point:

• Fast (quick in motion) (stationary)
• Intercourse (sex) (talk)
• Hot (temperature extreme opposite of cold), (cute), (stolen), and others
• Cool (temperature opposite of hot), (nice), (hot), (radical), (far out). and others

​It's said that a picture paints 1,000 words. Just make certain that you know which definitions were actually painted.