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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... sometimes I return only yes , or no , to question- LA CONISM . n . s . [ laconisme , Fr. Laconis- ary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long . Pope mus , Lat . ] A concise style : called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . is As ...
... sometimes I return only yes , or no , to question- LA CONISM . n . s . [ laconisme , Fr. Laconis- ary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long . Pope mus , Lat . ] A concise style : called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . is As ...
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... sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage , We were Two lads , that thought there was no more be- hind , But such a day to - morrow as to - day , And to be boy eternal . Shakspeare . The poor ...
... sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage , We were Two lads , that thought there was no more be- hind , But such a day to - morrow as to - day , And to be boy eternal . Shakspeare . The poor ...
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... sometime Accounted dang'rous folly . Shaksp . Macbeth . Affectation endeavours to correct natural de- fects , and has always the laudable aim of pleas- ing , though it always misses it . Locke . 2. Healthy ; salubrious . Good blood ...
... sometime Accounted dang'rous folly . Shaksp . Macbeth . Affectation endeavours to correct natural de- fects , and has always the laudable aim of pleas- ing , though it always misses it . Locke . 2. Healthy ; salubrious . Good blood ...
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... sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon . 12. To calm ; to still ; to quiet ...
... sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon . 12. To calm ; to still ; to quiet ...
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... sometimes be re- solved into that not , meaning prevention or care lest a thing should happen . Forty stripes he may give him , and not ex- ceed , lest if he should exceed , then thy brother should seem vile . Deuteronomy . Lest they ...
... sometimes be re- solved into that not , meaning prevention or care lest a thing should happen . Forty stripes he may give him , and not ex- ceed , lest if he should exceed , then thy brother should seem vile . Deuteronomy . Lest they ...
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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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