The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-12
worceYter's Universal and Critical Die
tionnry Of the English Language.
ByJ E. WORCESTER IL d

Ons volirne, SEQ shaep, 1882 pages-Irice SO so
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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 TO
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced and care Ia taken to note such tcchni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS 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 on pRoNUNcIA-
TIoS. His system of Notation, which is easily I'M
derstood, and founded on a 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 a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHooRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
fiuctuating, 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 10 a much greater extent than
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the short critical notes the photography the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Ameri-
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with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
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