The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-17
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tIonary fthe English Language.

By j. 4. WORCESTER, LII. ID
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The publishers respectfully invite attention to the
following eminent testimony to the excellence OF
thisstandard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionaryfull yanswers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that OF all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference ismnde to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such as are techn
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are 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 rRoHUNcIA-
TIoN His system of Notation, which is easily uil-
derstood and founded on a 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 orthoepists, gives TO
this work important advantages as PronounciDg
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usagcis various and
fiuctuating, he has aimed to bec6A2iltents and 10
reduce to the same rules words<f similar forlna-
ton. Theinsertion of Grammatical forms and in-
Elections of words to much greater extent than
they 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.
pous Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key TO the pro-
nunciation of Classicaland Scriptureproper names,
arc important appcndages to the Dictionary.
Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
published; and its already extensive use, both
among cultivated English readers ,and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony oft merits. We
confidently recommend il 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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President of Williams College, Mass.
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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
Harvard University.
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Bishop of Pennsylvania
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