The republic., 1851-01-28
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die.
tionnry OF the English Language
By ]. u. WoRCEsrER. LII. d

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The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and is taken to note such techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those PER-
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derstood, and founded on more complete analysis
of the vowel sounds than 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
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bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma
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