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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
AUTHoRITEs with respect TO words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such are techni
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DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning 10 technical and scientific terms spe-
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TIoN. His system of Notation, which is easily I'M
derstood, and founded on more complete analysis
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 orthoepists, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar.
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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necuons OF words TO a much greater extent than
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