Dictionaries do not exhaustively discuss topics and the scope of meanings of terms, they give you a colloquially-oriented summary of what they mean to help you, for example, parse a conversation that uses the word in passing.
John Locke being a liberal isn’t an “alternative fact”, you’re just a troglodyte.
How dare I “missuse” dictionaries to “define words” which contradict your “alternative facts.”
and FYI, Oxford is British.
Dictionaries do not exhaustively discuss topics and the scope of meanings of terms, they give you a colloquially-oriented summary of what they mean to help you, for example, parse a conversation that uses the word in passing.
John Locke being a liberal isn’t an “alternative fact”, you’re just a troglodyte.