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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... used ; fo that the reader who knows the different periods of the language , and the time of its authors , may judge of the elegance or prevalence of any word , or meaning of a word ; and without recurring to other books , may know what ...
... used ; fo that the reader who knows the different periods of the language , and the time of its authors , may judge of the elegance or prevalence of any word , or meaning of a word ; and without recurring to other books , may know what ...
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... used in printing ; as et , ft , fi , fl , fb , sk , ff , ß , fi , fli , fi , fi , t , and & , or and per fe , and ... used in the beginning and middle , and s at the end , Vowels are five , a , e , i , o , u . Such is the number ...
... used in printing ; as et , ft , fi , fl , fb , sk , ff , ß , fi , fli , fi , fi , t , and & , or and per fe , and ... used in the beginning and middle , and s at the end , Vowels are five , a , e , i , o , u . Such is the number ...
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... used where i is now put , occurs very frequently in all old books . GENERAL RULES . A vowel in the beginning or mid . dle fyllable , before two confonants , is commonly fhort , as opportunity . In monofyllables a fingle vowel before a ...
... used where i is now put , occurs very frequently in all old books . GENERAL RULES . A vowel in the beginning or mid . dle fyllable , before two confonants , is commonly fhort , as opportunity . In monofyllables a fingle vowel before a ...
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... used before b ; whence it appears that the Eng- lifh anciently afpirated lefs . An is ftill used before the filent b , as , an We have fince had no general reformers ; but fome ingenious men have endeavoured to deferve well of their ...
... used before b ; whence it appears that the Eng- lifh anciently afpirated lefs . An is ftill used before the filent b , as , an We have fince had no general reformers ; but fome ingenious men have endeavoured to deferve well of their ...
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... used in modern writers for ye , particula ly in the language of cere- mony , where the fecond perfon plural is ufed for the fecond perfon fingular , You are my friend . #efe is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which. Natural ...
... used in modern writers for ye , particula ly in the language of cere- mony , where the fecond perfon plural is ufed for the fecond perfon fingular , You are my friend . #efe is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which. Natural ...
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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...