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Actually, descriptivism in English dictionaries is a modern phenomenon, from Webster's New International Third onward. Webster's New International Second and earlier were prescriptivist, as is the American Heritage Dictionary, which was created as a rebuttal of sorts to W3.
I only learned this recently so I don't blame you for not knowing it.