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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... sense of the verb , except when they signify things as well as actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract signification , as colouring , painting , learning . The participles ...
... sense of the verb , except when they signify things as well as actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract signification , as colouring , painting , learning . The participles ...
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... sense may easily be collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the progress of its meaning , and show by what gradations of intermediate sense it has passed from its primitive to its ...
... sense may easily be collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the progress of its meaning , and show by what gradations of intermediate sense it has passed from its primitive to its ...
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... sense , will often exhibit , to a more accurate examiner , diversities of signification , or , at least , afford different shades of the same meaning : one will shew the word applied to persons , another to things ; one will express an ...
... sense , will often exhibit , to a more accurate examiner , diversities of signification , or , at least , afford different shades of the same meaning : one will shew the word applied to persons , another to things ; one will express an ...
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... sense ; for in making this collection I trusted more to memory , than , in a state of disquiet and embarrassment , memory can contain , and purposed to supply at the review what was left incom- plete in the first transcription . Many ...
... sense ; for in making this collection I trusted more to memory , than , in a state of disquiet and embarrassment , memory can contain , and purposed to supply at the review what was left incom- plete in the first transcription . Many ...
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... sense ; the geometrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero , and the physician of sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays . Copious- ness of speech will give opportunities to capricious ...
... sense ; the geometrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero , and the physician of sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays . Copious- ness of speech will give opportunities to capricious ...
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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