lexicon

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LEX'ICON, noun [Gr. a dictionary, from to speak.] A dictionary; a vocabulary or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language, with the definition of each, or an explanation of its meaning.
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More founding-era words: liberty · virtue · republic · justice · providence · commerce · militia · arms · prudence · establishment · religion · usurpation · tyranny · citizen · unalienable · sovereign