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Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
By ]. Z. WORCESTER, Ii. ID.

By u. 4. WORCESTER, LII. ID.
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this standard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
TO Its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
dictionaries united Constant reference is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such as are echni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
pErsirioNs are clear and exact, and those per
tanning To technical and scientific terms spe-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on pRoNuNcIA-
TON His system of Notation, which is easily I'M
derstood, and founded on a more complete ANALYSIS
of the vowel sounds than have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation TO words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepists gives 70
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Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
btrary changes, but where usage is various and
iuctuatng, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in
Elections of words to IA much greater extent than
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and improved edition Of Walkers Key TO the pro-
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