The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-05
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
Rv r. WoRcrsrRR IL ID
By j. K. w oRcEsTER, LII. ID


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this standard dictionary.
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TO its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference is made u
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced, and care s taken TO note such are techni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those per-
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cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on pRoNyScIA-
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OF the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere mel
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation to words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepsts gives u
this work important advantages as Pronounclne
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
1uctuating, he has aimed TO be consistent, and te
reduce to the same rules words OF similar lorna
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Elections Of words to q much greater extent than
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