The republic., 1851-09-10
Worooster's Universal and Critical Die
tiOnary OF the English Language.
BYJ.E. WoRcEsrER, Ii. D

By h. WORCESTER, LII.
One volume, sUo. sheep, 1882 pages-Friee $3.50
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The execution of this Dictionaryfullyans
TO its title. The VOCABULARY Is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such as aretechni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spe-
cially valuable to the general reader The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUNcIA-
TON His system of Notation, which is easily un-
derstood, and founded on 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 ar
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huctuatng, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton. heinsertion of Grammatical forms and iI4-
Elections Of words TO much greater extent than
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the short critical notes the photography the pro-
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pious Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
ana improved EDITION OF walker 5 hey 10 the pro-
nunciation of Classcaland Scriptureproper names,
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learning, affords good testimony ofits merits. We
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