• @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Sense of “adjust (a clock, etc.) with reference to a standard of accuracy” is by 1660s. Related: Regulated; regulating.

    Did you read your own source? Or just stop at the first sentence?

    • transigence
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      31 year ago

      I’ve seen dictionary arguers do this all the time. You say that a word means one thing, and they say, “No, it doesn’t.” Then they cite a dictionary which provides a few definitions, one of which is in the sense that the subject was using it, and they point to the existence of literally any other definition as evidence that “it does not mean that.”

    • blazera
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      11 year ago

      Yeah? Thats still the same meaning as today. Controlling based on a standard.