The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-21
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tiomary Of the English Language.
By. E. WORCESTER, LII. D

DY y Z. w okCESTER, ~
One 1olume, svo sheep, 1882 pGges-Pries 1850
The publishers respectfully invite attention to the
following eminent testimony to the excellence Of
thisstandard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionaryfully answers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united Constant reference is made to
AUrHoRIrIEs with respect to words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such aretechni-
call foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms spe-
cially valuable to the general reader The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNuNCIA-
rIoN- His system of Notation, which is easily
derstood, and founded on morecomplcte analysis
OF the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation words differ
emily pronounced by differentorthoepists gives TO
this work important advantages as a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoeRAPHY he has made no
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
nuctuatlng, he has aimed to be consistent and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton The insertion of Grammatical forms and inr
tectlons OF words to a much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries, and
the short critical notes the photography the pro-
nunciation, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical local, and Ameri
can uses of fwordsinterspersed through the volume,
give to this work much additional value. The &C.
pious Vocabulary of Modern G Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunclation of Cassicaland Scriptureproper names,
are important appcndages to the Dictionary.
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| confidently recommend it as containing an ample
and careful view of the present state OF our Ian
guage.
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Justice U s. Supreme Court Ohio
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Professor of Sacred Literature,
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Boylston Professor Of Rhetoric and Oratory
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Bishop of Pennsylvania
Late Professonof Hebrew, &C., Harvard Uni
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