A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar, Volum 1T. Tegg, 1832 |
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... according to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philosophers ...
... according to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philosophers ...
Side 47
... according to English orthography , never ends a word ; therefore we write stick , block , which were originally sticke , blocke , in such words . Ċ is now mute . It is used before I and r , as clock , cross . D. D is uniform in its ...
... according to English orthography , never ends a word ; therefore we write stick , block , which were originally sticke , blocke , in such words . Ċ is now mute . It is used before I and r , as clock , cross . D. D is uniform in its ...
Side 48
... according to English analogy , c would be soft , as kept , king , skirt , skeptick , for so it should be written , not sceptick , because sc is sounded like s , as in scene . It is used before n , as knell , knot , but totally loses its ...
... according to English analogy , c would be soft , as kept , king , skirt , skeptick , for so it should be written , not sceptick , because sc is sounded like s , as in scene . It is used before n , as knell , knot , but totally loses its ...
Side 49
... according to his own scheme ; which the following specimen will make vation . They have however generally formed their tables according to the easily understood . cursory speech of those with whom they happen to converse ; and ...
... according to his own scheme ; which the following specimen will make vation . They have however generally formed their tables according to the easily understood . cursory speech of those with whom they happen to converse ; and ...
Side 50
... according to an opinion long received , that the ' s is a contraction of his , as the because's is put to female nouus , Woman's beauty ; the Virgin's delicacy ; Haughty Juno's unrelenting hate : and collective nouns , as Women's ...
... according to an opinion long received , that the ' s is a contraction of his , as the because's is put to female nouus , Woman's beauty ; the Virgin's delicacy ; Haughty Juno's unrelenting hate : and collective nouns , as Women's ...
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Addison Æneid Aliments ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Coriolanus Cowell death Decay of Piety derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden earth eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French give grace ground hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VI honour Hooker horse Hudibras Julius Cæsar kind king King Lear L'Estrange language Locke lord manner Milton mind n. s. Lat nature ness noun Paradise Lost particle person Pope Pope's preter preterite prince Saxon Scepsis sense Shak Shakesp Shakespeare shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Vulg wind word