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yFofcestet'A uHi9erssI aRd- Critical Die
tIonary OF the English LaIigiiage.
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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. Constant reference is made to
AUTHonIrIEs with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such aretechni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
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rIoN. His system of Notation, which is easily un-
derstood and founded on more complete anal ysis
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 orthoeplsts, gives to
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Dictionary. In oRfAodRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma :
lion. The insertion Of G Grammatical forms and in-
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