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, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Latin . ] 1. Human speech . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be letters , forming and pro- ducing words and sentences ; but if we consider it according to the design thereof , then language is apt signs ...
... Latin . ] 1. Human speech . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be letters , forming and pro- ducing words and sentences ; but if we consider it according to the design thereof , then language is apt signs ...
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... Latin . ) Hidden ; concealed ; secret . If we look into its retired movements , and more secret latent springs , we may there trace cut a steady hand producing good out of evil . Woodward . Who drinks , alas ! but to forget ; nor sees ...
... Latin . ) Hidden ; concealed ; secret . If we look into its retired movements , and more secret latent springs , we may there trace cut a steady hand producing good out of evil . Woodward . Who drinks , alas ! but to forget ; nor sees ...
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... Latin . ] The state of lying concealed . LA'TITUDE . n . s . [ latitude , French ; la- titudo , Latin ] LATRIA . n . s . [ Latin ; λατρεία ; latrie Fr. ] The highest kind of worship : distinguished by the papists from dulia , or ...
... Latin . ] The state of lying concealed . LA'TITUDE . n . s . [ latitude , French ; la- titudo , Latin ] LATRIA . n . s . [ Latin ; λατρεία ; latrie Fr. ] The highest kind of worship : distinguished by the papists from dulia , or ...
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... Latin . ] Harvey . I. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless faith divine : If , after social rites , and gifts bestow'd , I stain'd my hospitable ...
... Latin . ] Harvey . I. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless faith divine : If , after social rites , and gifts bestow'd , I stain'd my hospitable ...
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... [ Latin . ] A freckly or scurfy eruption upon the skin ; such especially as is common to women in childbearing . Quincy . LENTIL . n . 5. [ lens , Lat . lentille , Fr. ] A plant . It hath a papilionaceous flower , the pointal of which ...
... [ Latin . ] A freckly or scurfy eruption upon the skin ; such especially as is common to women in childbearing . Quincy . LENTIL . n . 5. [ lens , Lat . lentille , Fr. ] A plant . It hath a papilionaceous flower , the pointal of which ...
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Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb Waller Watts word Wotton young