The Oratorical Dictionary

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Printed at the Western Methodist office, 1835 - 304 sider
 

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Side 12 - They are to be delivered out from the lips, as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, sharp, in due succession, and of due weight.
Side 180 - Interregnum, *. the time in which a throne is vacant between the death of one prince and the accession of another; vacancy of the throne ItitcnviiMi', i.
Side 250 - JOHNSON has defined romance, in its primary sense, to be " a military fable of the middle ages ; a tale of wild adventures in love and chivalry.
Side 62 - ... of dice; a mould, a form ; a shade, or tendency to any colour ; exterior appearance; manner, air, mien ; a flight of hawks. CASTANET, kas'ti-ne'ts Small shells of ivory, or hard wood, which dancers rattle in their hands.
Side 150 - The half of a globe when it is supposed to be cut through its centre in the plane of one of its greatest circles. HEMISPHERICAL, he'me-sfe'r'lk41. (509). HEMISPHERIC K, he'me-sfer'lk. Half round, containing half a globe. HEMISTICH, he-mls'uk. s. (509). Half a verse.
Side 213 - Notary, no'ta-re. s. on officer whose business it is to take notes of any thing which may concern the publick.
Side 90 - CDBIT, in the mensuration of the ancients ; a long measure, equal to the length of a man's arm, from the elbow to the tip of the fingers.
Side 201 - Noon, mid-day ; the line drawn from north to south which the sun crosses at noon ; the particular place or «täte of any thing ; the highest point of glory or power.
Side 90 - To put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross set up . CRUDE, krood, a.
Side 135 - A large book, of which the pages are formed by a sheet of paper once doubled. FOLK, foke, s. People, in familiar language ; nation?, mankind. £3...

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