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Robley Dunglison in his series of medical dictionaries (1833—1903) echoes medical thinking of the time when he says of dementia in common parlance, and even in legal language, this word is synonymous with insanity...
Unfortunately, that leads to inconsistencies, for dictionaries report what they find and are not intended as sources of prescriptive decisions.
Some conservative dictionaries published earlier in the 20th century listed a huge number of Scotticisms on the (justifiable) grounds that they would be useful in reading Burns; but most school editions containing Burns's poetry later on supplied glosses, so an ancillary reference proved unnecessary.
Only since moving to the mainland have I been tagged a Conch, and, as some dictionaries now define any native of the Florida Keys as a Conch, I no longer demur.
Although L has, in addition to the names, abbreviations, and only a few pages of miscellaneous materials—Handbook of Style, Ten Vexed points in English grammar—and some tables of moneys, weights and measures, etc., W has short sections on Foreign Words and Phrases (most of which are dispensable), Signs and Symbols, and Style, as well as one of those interminably boring listings of Colleges and Universities that clutter up most American college dictionaries.