Middle English Dictionary the next several decades. The dictionary was completed in 2001. In 2007, the full dictionary was made freely available and searchable online in an HTML format. Middle English Dictionary The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. "Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available." The project began in the 1920s. The first instalment, "Plan and Bibliography", containing a list of Middle English texts used
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) is the print edition of the largest thesaurus in the world, the Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE), conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The "HTE" is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of "The Oxford English Dictionary", arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the "HTE" arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside types and dates of use. It