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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... causing sorrow . The lamentable change is for the best ; The worst returns to laughter . Shaksp . 2. Mournful ; sorrowful ... cause sorrow . Sidney Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , And sinks most lamentably . Shakspeare . 3 ...
... causing sorrow . The lamentable change is for the best ; The worst returns to laughter . Shaksp . 2. Mournful ; sorrowful ... cause sorrow . Sidney Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , And sinks most lamentably . Shakspeare . 3 ...
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... cause and effect ; as , the laws of magnetism . Natural agents have their law . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's law . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Law ...
... cause and effect ; as , the laws of magnetism . Natural agents have their law . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's law . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Law ...
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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 expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity , it is ...
... 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 expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity , it is ...
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... cause . Arbuthnot on Dict . 3. ( in physick . ] That sizy , viscid , coa- gai ted part of the biood , which , in ... Causing leprosy ; infected with leprosy ; leprous . Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole , With juice of cursed hebenon ...
... cause . Arbuthnot on Dict . 3. ( in physick . ] That sizy , viscid , coa- gai ted part of the biood , which , in ... Causing leprosy ; infected with leprosy ; leprous . Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole , With juice of cursed hebenon ...
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... cause . Creech Shew the power of religion , in abating that particular anguish which seems to lie so heavy on Leonora . Addison . 11. To be troublesome or tedious . 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 . Addison . 11. To be troublesome or tedious . Suppose kings , besides the entertainment of luxury , should have spent ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
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