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Exactly. If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition. Dictionaries lag actual speech and language I suppose.

> If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition.

This mentality seems to be prevalent in the USA, in Germany, on the opposite, many people see this topic differently - just because a lot of people use a certain word/term wrong does not make it right.

And it annoys me endlessly. People can't let go of the genitive, even if it's dead in loads of dialects.

If people knew how many words were just "made up" in the last couple centuries to match the vocabulary of Latin or French... they'd lose their mind

If frequency of use is an argument, one could argue that to decimate might not even be a word.

Correct. To decimate is the infinitive form of the verb decimate.

Prescribe, and it's both of these things.