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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... matter of the ceremonies had wrought , for the most part , only upon light - headed , weak men , whose satisfaction was not to be laboured for . Clarendon . A labouring man that is given to drunkenness , shall not be rich . Ecclus ...
... matter of the ceremonies had wrought , for the most part , only upon light - headed , weak men , whose satisfaction was not to be laboured for . Clarendon . A labouring man that is given to drunkenness , shall not be rich . Ecclus ...
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... matter in itself lamentable , lamentably expressed by the old prince , greatly moved the two princes to compassion . 2. So as to cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably ...
... matter in itself lamentable , lamentably expressed by the old prince , greatly moved the two princes to compassion . 2. So as to cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably ...
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... matter so as to shape it by the chisel . Those black circular lines we see on turned vessels of wood , are the effects of ignition , caused by the pressure of an edged stick upon the ves- sel turned nimbly in the lathe . Ray . To LATHER ...
... matter so as to shape it by the chisel . Those black circular lines we see on turned vessels of wood , are the effects of ignition , caused by the pressure of an edged stick upon the ves- sel turned nimbly in the lathe . Ray . To LATHER ...
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... to nourish the fibres . Evelyn's Kalender . The terrestrial matter is disposed into strata or layers , placed one upon another , in like man- 2. Slow ; tedious . Such court guise , As LAY LAY That which remaineth over, lay up to be kept ...
... to nourish the fibres . Evelyn's Kalender . The terrestrial matter is disposed into strata or layers , placed one upon another , in like man- 2. Slow ; tedious . Such court guise , As LAY LAY That which remaineth over, lay up to be kept ...
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... matter ; for birds will learn one of another . Bacon's Natural History . LEARNED . adj . [ from learn . ] 1. Versed in science and literature . Locke . It is indifferent to the matter in hand , which way the learned shall determine of ...
... matter ; for birds will learn one of another . Bacon's Natural History . LEARNED . adj . [ from learn . ] 1. Versed in science and literature . Locke . It is indifferent to the matter in hand , which way the learned shall determine of ...
Common terms and phrases
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