The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-24
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary or the English Language
BY j. +. WORCESTER, LII. ID


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following eminent testimony to the excellence OF
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 10
AUTHORITIES with respect To words newly intro
duced and care Is taken to such as re techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spe-
cially valuable to the general reader The author
has evidently bestowed great labor rRosUScIA-
TON. HIS system OF Notation which il easily uu-
derstood, and founded on more complete analysis
OF the vowel sounds than VIC 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 givcs 10
this work important advantages as "A Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHooRAPHy he has made no ar
bltrary changes, but where usage il various and
huctuating, he has aimed To be consistent and TO
reduce 10 the same rules words of similar forIna-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in
Elections of words 10 "A much greater extent than
they are given IN other English Dictionaries and
the short critical notes the photography the pro-
nunciation, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Amcri-
can uses OF words intcrsperscd through the volume
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pous Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names,
with their pronunciation, and a greatly enlarged
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are important appendagcs To the Dictionary
Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
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Mclean Professor Of Ancient and Modern
History, Harvard University
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Justice u ; Suprefn, Court Ohio
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Professor Of Sacred Literature
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Abbot Professor Of Christian rhoosory, rheo-
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President Of Dartmouth College, n. n.
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President Of Amherst College Mass
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President Of Williams College, Mass
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BOylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
Harvard University.
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Professor Of Bellies Lettres, Harvard Uni
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Late Professor Of Hebrew, &C, Harvard Uni
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President Of Geneva College. n y.
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Professor ia Jefferson Med Col phtl,lelnhia
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Editor OF the North American Review
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