A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They are FoundW. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; J. Hinton; T. Davies; Hawes, Clarke, and Collins; R. Horsefield; W. Johnston; W. Owen; T. Lowndes; T. Caslon; S. Crowder; T. Longman; B. Law; Beckett, and De Hondt; E. and C. Dilly; J. Dodsley; W. Nicoll; W. Griffin; G. Robinson; T. Cadell; J. Knox; Almon; W. Goldsmith; J. and J. Ridley, 1773 |
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... common bufinefs of life : thefe know not any other ufe of a dictionary than that of adjusting orthography , and explaining terms of fcience or words of infrequent occur- rence , or remote derivation . For thefe purposes many ...
... common bufinefs of life : thefe know not any other ufe of a dictionary than that of adjusting orthography , and explaining terms of fcience or words of infrequent occur- rence , or remote derivation . For thefe purposes many ...
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... common grammarians , without enquiring whether a fitter diftribu - ⚫ tion might not be found . Experience has long shown this method to be fo diftinct as to obviate confufion , and fo comprehensive as to prevent any inconvenient ...
... common grammarians , without enquiring whether a fitter diftribu - ⚫ tion might not be found . Experience has long shown this method to be fo diftinct as to obviate confufion , and fo comprehensive as to prevent any inconvenient ...
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... common- ly retained in derivative words where it was part of a diphthong in the pri- mitive as deftroy , defroyer ; betray , betrayed , betrayer ; pray , prayer ; fay , fayer ; day , days . rbeing the Saxon vowel y , which was commonly ...
... common- ly retained in derivative words where it was part of a diphthong in the pri- mitive as deftroy , defroyer ; betray , betrayed , betrayer ; pray , prayer ; fay , fayer ; day , days . rbeing the Saxon vowel y , which was commonly ...
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... common for thofe that deliver the grammar of. The contraction may feem harder , where many of them meet , as nuganós , kyrk , church , prefbyter , prief ; facriftanus , fexton ; fran- go , fregi , break , breach ; fagus , ońyz , beech ...
... common for thofe that deliver the grammar of. The contraction may feem harder , where many of them meet , as nuganós , kyrk , church , prefbyter , prief ; facriftanus , fexton ; fran- go , fregi , break , breach ; fagus , ońyz , beech ...
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... periculum , peril ; mirabile , marrul ; as magnus , main ; dignor , deign ; tingo , fain ; tinctum , caint ; pingo , faint ; p.æ diri , reach , The It is common for thofe that deliver the grainmar of ENGLISH TONGUE .
... periculum , peril ; mirabile , marrul ; as magnus , main ; dignor , deign ; tingo , fain ; tinctum , caint ; pingo , faint ; p.æ diri , reach , The It is common for thofe that deliver the grainmar of ENGLISH TONGUE .
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Addifon adjective Arbuthnot Atterbury Ayliffe Bacon Bentley Blackmore body Boyle Brown Burnet caft Camden Carew caufe Clarendon clofe colour Confifting corrupted Corvel Davies Decay of Piety defire Denbam Deuteronomy Donne drefs Dryden Dutch Fairfax fame fenfe feparate fhip fide fignifies fmall fome fomething fometimes fore fpecies French ftate ftone ftrike fuch fupport fyllable Glanville ground Hale Hammond Hayward Hooker horfe houfe houſe Hudibras inftrument Jobnfon kind King Charles Knolles L'Eftrange Latin lefs Locke low Latin manner meaſure Milton Mortimer nefs Newton noife noun obfcure oppofition paffion participle Peacham perfon plant Pope prefent preter preterite Prior publick purpoſe Quincy raiſe Raleigh Refembling Rofcommon Rogers Savift Saxon Shakefp Shakespeare Sidney ſmall South Spenfer ſtate Stilling fleet Swift Tatler Taylor Temple thing Tillotson tion ufed uſed veffel verb Waller Watts whofe Wiseman Woodward word Wotton
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Seite 18 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Seite 12 - ... its motion ; and yet, with its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round about its proper centre.
Seite 164 - In arithmetic^, the increasing .of any one number by another, so often as there are units in that number, by which the one is increased. MULTIPLICATOR,(mul-te-ple-ka'-tnr)n.!. The number by which" another number is multiplied.
Seite 152 - The application of a word to an use to which, in its original import, it cannot be put: as, he bridles his anger; he deadens the sound; the spring awakes the flowers.
Seite 78 - In mathematics or the parabolic spiral, is a curve which rises from the supposition of the axis of the common Apollonian parabola's being bent round into the periphery of a circle, and is a line then passing through the extremities of the ordinates. which now converge toward the centre of the said circle.
Seite 12 - A curve generated by the revolution of the periphery of a circle along the convex or concave part of another circle.
Seite 96 - In architecture, that part of a pillar in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the building...