The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-19
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tiOnary OF the English Language.

BYJ. z. WORCESTER, LID
One voluRe, 5uo. sheep, 1882 pdges-PTtce y so
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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 10
AUTHoRITIEs 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-
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 a Pronouncng
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no
btrary 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- :
ton. The einsertion of Grammatical forms and i'm
Elections of words to much greater extent than
they gwen 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 Amer-
can uses of words snterspersed 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-
OF Old55lCalauQ QSCrlptuTeprOper names,
are important appendages to the Dictionary
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