The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-03
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
By J. E. woaoEsrER, LII. D.

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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 L made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced and is taken to note such as are techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact and those per
tanning TO technical and scientific terms are spc-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNuNcIA-
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of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation to words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepiss, gives to
this work important advantages az a Pronouncng
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forna-
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