The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-21
WorcesGer's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
BYJ r.. WORcEsrER. LI,.D

BYJ. E. WORCESTER, LII. ID
One ooIwme, 6uo. sheep, 1882 pages-Prics s so
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The execution of this Dictionaryfully answers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united Instant reference is made To
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such aretechni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINrTIoNs are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms spe-
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has evidently bestowed great labor on rRoNUNoIA
TIoN. His system of Notation, which Is easily un
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
this work important advantages Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating. be has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce 60 tho same ruics words of similar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in-
Elections of words to much greater extent than
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the short critical notes the orthography the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Amer-
can uses of fwordsinterspersed through the volume,
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with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
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