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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... never so saucy and pragmatical as they are now - a - days . Addison's Spectator . To LA CKEY . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To attend servilely . I know not whether Milton has used this word very properly . This common body , Like to a ...
... never so saucy and pragmatical as they are now - a - days . Addison's Spectator . To LA CKEY . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To attend servilely . I know not whether Milton has used this word very properly . This common body , Like to a ...
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... never meant the least abuse . Savift . To LAME . V. a . [ from the adjective . ] To make lame ; to cripple . I have never heard of such another encounter which lames report to follow it , and undoes de- scription to do it . Shakspeare ...
... never meant the least abuse . Savift . To LAME . V. a . [ from the adjective . ] To make lame ; to cripple . I have never heard of such another encounter which lames report to follow it , and undoes de- scription to do it . Shakspeare ...
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... Never more shall my torn mind be heal'd , Nor taste the gentle comforts of repose ! A dreadful band of gloomy cares surround me , And lay strong siege to my distracted soul . 20. To apply nearly . Philips . She layeth her hands to the ...
... Never more shall my torn mind be heal'd , Nor taste the gentle comforts of repose ! A dreadful band of gloomy cares surround me , And lay strong siege to my distracted soul . 20. To apply nearly . Philips . She layeth her hands to the ...
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... never repeat the charge ; but will always have the satisfaction to think it the money , of all other , the best laid out . I , in this venture , double gains pursue , And laid out all my stock to purchase you . Locke . Dryden . My ...
... never repeat the charge ; but will always have the satisfaction to think it the money , of all other , the best laid out . I , in this venture , double gains pursue , And laid out all my stock to purchase you . Locke . Dryden . My ...
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... never ought to be imputed to Dryden , but to those who suffered so noble a genius to lie under necessity . Pope . Europe lay then under a deep lethargy , and was no otherwise to be rescued but by one that would cry mightily . Atterbury ...
... never ought to be imputed to Dryden , but to those who suffered so noble a genius to lie under necessity . Pope . Europe lay then under a deep lethargy , and was no otherwise to be rescued but by one that would cry mightily . Atterbury ...
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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