Does anyone have access to a dictionary from the time of our founders? I read somewhere that the word “regulate” at that time meant to “make regular” and not to make laws to govern that economic trades of the several states.
We have dictionaries this time frame.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2512143/posts?q=1&;page=251
Links to a few dictionaries published in the 18th Century, located by rxsid.
The link to samuel johnson is located in the link. We have links to Etymology dictionaries and lots lots more.