The republic., 1851-03-17
WOrcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
BYJ E. WoRcEsrER, LID

One uolunue, sro sheep, 1882 pages-Pri So so
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following eminent testimony to the excellence of
this standard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
TO its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding En- glish
Dictionaries united Constant reference Is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such techni
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 PRoNUNcfA- :
rIoN- His system of Notation, which is easily un-
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 Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHOGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
fuctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton. The insertion 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 Amcri-
can uses of words interspersed through the volume,
give to this work much additional value. The &C
pious 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
are important appendage5 10 the dictionary.
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among cultivated English readers, and men of wide
Learning; affords good testimony ofts merits We
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