premise: This edition when published was said to give more word definitions than any other British desk dictionary ; including its main competitor , The Concise Oxford . But in 1986 it was moved into second place by the second edition of Collins Dictionary of the English Language . ( Webster 's New World Dictionary of the American Language seems about the same size as the Oxford ; the Gage Canadian Dictionary is slightly smaller . )
hypothesis: This dcitionary was more comprehensive than all other British dictionaries when it was published .