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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... cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably . 3. Pitifully ; despicably . LAMENTATION . n . s . [ lamentatio , Lat . Expression of sorrow ; audible grief . Be't lawful that I ...
... cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably . 3. Pitifully ; despicably . LAMENTATION . n . s . [ lamentatio , Lat . Expression of sorrow ; audible grief . Be't lawful that I ...
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... cause . Dryd . 2. A decree , edict , statute , or custom , publickly established as a rule of justice . Ordain them laws , part such as appertain To civil justice , part religious rites . Milton . Our nation would not give latus to the ...
... cause . Dryd . 2. A decree , edict , statute , or custom , publickly established as a rule of justice . Ordain them laws , part such as appertain To civil justice , part religious rites . Milton . Our nation would not give latus to the ...
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... causes could never beget whirl- pools in a chaos of so great a laxity and thinness . Bentley . 2. Contrariety to rigorous precision ; as , laxity of expr of expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity ...
... causes could never beget whirl- pools in a chaos of so great a laxity and thinness . Bentley . 2. Contrariety to rigorous precision ; as , laxity of expr of expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity ...
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... cause . Creech Shew the power of religion , in abating that particular anguish which seems to lie so heavy on Leonora . 11. To be troublesome or tedious . Addison . Suppose kings , besides the entertainment of luxury , should have spent ...
... cause . Creech Shew the power of religion , in abating that particular anguish which seems to lie so heavy on Leonora . 11. To be troublesome or tedious . Addison . Suppose kings , besides the entertainment of luxury , should have spent ...
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... causes a lisping sound , the breath being strained through the Holder . teeth . As yet a child , nor yet a fool ... cause ? Unask'd the royal grant . Dryden . 4. [ from list , a shred or border . ] To sew together , in such a sort ...
... causes a lisping sound , the breath being strained through the Holder . teeth . As yet a child , nor yet a fool ... cause ? Unask'd the royal grant . Dryden . 4. [ from list , a shred or border . ] To sew together , in such a sort ...
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