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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... manner deserving praise . Obsolete words may be laudably revived , when either they are sounding or significant . Dryden . LA UDANUM . n . s . [ a cant word , from laudo , Lat . ] A soporifick tincture . To LAVE . v . a . [ lavo , Latin ...
... manner deserving praise . Obsolete words may be laudably revived , when either they are sounding or significant . Dryden . LA UDANUM . n . s . [ a cant word , from laudo , Lat . ] A soporifick tincture . To LAVE . v . a . [ lavo , Latin ...
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... manner , to lay his unkindness unto him , he , seeing himself confronted by so many , like a resolute orator , went not to denial , but to justify his cruel false- Sidney . hood . 54. To LAY to . To apply with vigour , Let children be ...
... manner , to lay his unkindness unto him , he , seeing himself confronted by so many , like a resolute orator , went not to denial , but to justify his cruel false- Sidney . hood . 54. To LAY to . To apply with vigour , Let children be ...
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... manner to be no- thing else but heaps of frivolous and scandalous vanities , they have been even with disdain thrown out , the very nests which bred them ab- borring them . Hooker . There are in Rome two sets of antiquities , the ...
... manner to be no- thing else but heaps of frivolous and scandalous vanities , they have been even with disdain thrown out , the very nests which bred them ab- borring them . Hooker . There are in Rome two sets of antiquities , the ...
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... manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face , and have licence to answer for himself . To LICENSE . v . a . [ licencier , Fr. ] 1. To permit by a legal grant . Wit's ...
... manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face , and have licence to answer for himself . To LICENSE . v . a . [ licencier , Fr. ] 1. To permit by a legal grant . Wit's ...
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... manner of living with re- spect to virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred ...
... manner of living with re- spect to virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred ...
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