The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-16
Worcester's Univers~I and Critical DIE
tionary or the English Language.
BYJ. T. WoRoEsrER. LID

uonary OF the En8iAsh Language.
BY ]. 4. WORCESTER, LII ID
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this standard dictionary.
The execution Of this Dictionary fully answers
10 It's title. The VOCABULARY Is probably more
comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
Dictionaries united Constant references q made to
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such 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 on pRoHUscIA-
TON. His system Of Notation, which il 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 orthoepiss, gives 10
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Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no arr
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
iuctuating, 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 to much greater extent than
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can uses Of words interspersed through the volume,
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pious Vocabulary Of Modern Geographical names,
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunciation of Classical and Scripture proper names,
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among cultivated English readers, and men divide
learning, affords good testimony Of its merits We
confidently recommend it as containing an ample
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guage.
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