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Alexander Turcic · 10-04-2004, 07:58 AM

Thanks. I just had a look at the screenshots. I don't know if it can handle the kind of dictionary I had in my mind. Not just simple 1 or 2 words translations, but more extensive word explanations such as this one:
<word>zetetic</word>
<desc><![CDATA[a. and <i>n.</i> 1: rare. A. adj. Inquiring, investigating;proceeding by inquiry or investigation. In quot. 1645 used inburlesque. B. n. 1. (sing. or pl.) Investigation, inquiry (as inmathematics, etc.). Often with allusion to Franciscus Vieta'sZeteticorum libri quinque. 2. An investigator, inquirer; spec. anadherent of the ancient Greek sceptic school of philosophy (seesceptic A., B. 1). Hence ze"tetical a., only in Zetetical Society,a nineteenth-century society with mystical beliefs; also ellipt.;ze"tetically adv. [see -ically], by way of inquiry orinvestigation.]]></desc>

10-04-2004, 07:58 AM	#3
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Thanks. I just had a look at the screenshots. I don't know if it can handle the kind of dictionary I had in my mind. Not just simple 1 or 2 words translations, but more extensive word explanations such as this one: <word>zetetic</word> <desc><![CDATA[a. and <i>n.</i> 1: rare. A. adj. Inquiring, investigating;proceeding by inquiry or investigation. In quot. 1645 used inburlesque. B. n. 1. (sing. or pl.) Investigation, inquiry (as inmathematics, etc.). Often with allusion to Franciscus Vieta'sZeteticorum libri quinque. 2. An investigator, inquirer; spec. anadherent of the ancient Greek sceptic school of philosophy (seesceptic A., B. 1). Hence ze"tetical a., only in Zetetical Society,a nineteenth-century society with mystical beliefs; also ellipt.;ze"tetically adv. [see -ically], by way of inquiry orinvestigation.]]></desc>