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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... fenfe of the verb , except when they fignify things as well as actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract fignification , as colouring , painting , learning . [ b ] The The ...
... fenfe of the verb , except when they fignify things as well as actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract fignification , as colouring , painting , learning . [ b ] The The ...
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... fenfe of the fimple words , that no fagacity will be able to trace the steps by which they arrived at the prefent ufe . Thefe I have noted with great care ; and though I cannot flatter myfelf that the collection is complete , I believe ...
... fenfe of the fimple words , that no fagacity will be able to trace the steps by which they arrived at the prefent ufe . Thefe I have noted with great care ; and though I cannot flatter myfelf that the collection is complete , I believe ...
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... fenfe is too fubtle and evanefcent to be fixed in a paraphrafe ; fuch are all thofe which are by the grammarians termed expletives , and , in dead languages , are fuffered to pafs for empty founds , of no other ufe than to fill a verfe ...
... fenfe is too fubtle and evanefcent to be fixed in a paraphrafe ; fuch are all thofe which are by the grammarians termed expletives , and , in dead languages , are fuffered to pafs for empty founds , of no other ufe than to fill a verfe ...
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... fenfe , it has paffed from its primitive to its remote and accidental fignification ; fo that every foregoing explanation fhould tend to that which follows , and the feries be regularly conca- tenated from the first notion to the last ...
... fenfe , it has paffed from its primitive to its remote and accidental fignification ; fo that every foregoing explanation fhould tend to that which follows , and the feries be regularly conca- tenated from the first notion to the last ...
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... fenfe , will often exhibit , to a more accurate examiner , diver- fities of fignification , or , at least , afford different fhades of the fame meaning : one will fhew the word applied to perfons , another to things ; one will exprefs ...
... fenfe , will often exhibit , to a more accurate examiner , diver- fities of fignification , or , at least , afford different fhades of the fame meaning : one will fhew the word applied to perfons , another to things ; one will exprefs ...
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