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worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary or the English Language.
By ]. z. WoRcEsrER, IL. D

By j. Z. WORCESTER, LII. ID
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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 is made 10
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such are techni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those pcr-
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Of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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best English authorities in relation 10 words differ
emily pronounced by different orthocpists, gives 10
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reduce 10 the same rules words of similar forma-
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