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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... person of the mighty , and lay a stumbling - block in the way of thy uprightness . Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid ... persons , are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony . Bacon . I lay the deep foundations of a wall ...
... person of the mighty , and lay a stumbling - block in the way of thy uprightness . Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid ... persons , are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony . Bacon . I lay the deep foundations of a wall ...
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... person . Derbam . LE CHEROUSLY . adv . [ from lecherous . ] Lewdly ; lustfully . LE CHEROUSNESS . n . s . [ from lecherous . ] Lewdness . LE CHERY.n.s . [ from lecher . ] Lewdness ; lust . The rest welter with as little shame in open ...
... person . Derbam . LE CHEROUSLY . adv . [ from lecherous . ] Lewdly ; lustfully . LE CHEROUSNESS . n . s . [ from lecherous . ] Lewdness . LE CHERY.n.s . [ from lecher . ] Lewdness ; lust . The rest welter with as little shame in open ...
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... Persons of their fortune and quality could well have stood upon their own legs , and needed not to lay in for ... person : but revenge is so absolutely the peculiar of Heaven , that no consideration can impower , even the best men ...
... Persons of their fortune and quality could well have stood upon their own legs , and needed not to lay in for ... person : but revenge is so absolutely the peculiar of Heaven , that no consideration can impower , even the best men ...
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... person , and to express the executive power , it came to pass that the obedience due to the legislature was , for want of considering this easy distinction , misap plied to the administration . Swift . LEGÍTIMACY . n . s . [ from ...
... person , and to express the executive power , it came to pass that the obedience due to the legislature was , for want of considering this easy distinction , misap plied to the administration . Swift . LEGÍTIMACY . n . s . [ from ...
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... person , singular or solved into that not , meaning prevention 5. Or precept . : Wherefore do ye let the people from ... person . Before the first person singular it signifies resolution , fixed purpose , or ardent wish . Let me ...
... person , singular or solved into that not , meaning prevention 5. Or precept . : Wherefore do ye let the people from ... person . Before the first person singular it signifies resolution , fixed purpose , or ardent wish . Let me ...
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