A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is prefixed, an English grammar. To this ed. are added, a history of the English language [&c.].1768 |
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... adjective poffeffive ; I think with no more pro- priety than he might have applied the fame to the genitive in equitum decus , Troje oris , or any other Latin genitive . This termination of the noun feems to con- ftitute a real genitive ...
... adjective poffeffive ; I think with no more pro- priety than he might have applied the fame to the genitive in equitum decus , Troje oris , or any other Latin genitive . This termination of the noun feems to con- ftitute a real genitive ...
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... ADJECTIVES . Adjectives in the English language are wholly indeclinable ; baving neither cafe , gender , nor amber , and be ng added to fubftantives in all re- lations without any change ; as , a good woman , gud women , of a good woman ...
... ADJECTIVES . Adjectives in the English language are wholly indeclinable ; baving neither cafe , gender , nor amber , and be ng added to fubftantives in all re- lations without any change ; as , a good woman , gud women , of a good woman ...
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... adjective poffeffive ; I think with no more pro- priety than he might have applied the fame to the genitive in equitum decus , Troje oris , or any other Latin genitive . This termination of the noun feems to con- ftitute a real genitive ...
... adjective poffeffive ; I think with no more pro- priety than he might have applied the fame to the genitive in equitum decus , Troje oris , or any other Latin genitive . This termination of the noun feems to con- ftitute a real genitive ...
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... ADJECTIVES . Adjectives in the English language are wholly indeclinable ; having neither cafe , gender , nor number , and being added to fubftantives in all re- lations without any change ; as , a good woman , good women , of a good ...
... ADJECTIVES . Adjectives in the English language are wholly indeclinable ; having neither cafe , gender , nor number , and being added to fubftantives in all re- lations without any change ; as , a good woman , good women , of a good ...
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... adjectives of plenty , by adding the termination y ; as , a loafe , loufy ; wealth , wealthy ; health , healthy ; might ... adjective , and add the privative particle , we commonly prefix un , as unpolite , ungallant . The prepofitive ...
... adjectives of plenty , by adding the termination y ; as , a loafe , loufy ; wealth , wealthy ; health , healthy ; might ... adjective , and add the privative particle , we commonly prefix un , as unpolite , ungallant . The prepofitive ...
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