The republic., 1851-12-15
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tIOnnry OF the EngIIsh Language.
By j y. WoRcEsTER, LII. D

By e. WORCESTER, LII. D
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The publishers respectfully invite attention to tho
following eminent testimony to he excellence Of
thisstandard dictionary.
The execution Of this Dictionaryrully yanswcrf
To it's title. The VOCABULARY is probably NOR,
comprehensive than that Of all preceding Englist
Dictionaries united Constant refcrenc c is made &c
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such aretechni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFIEITIoNs are clear and exact, and those PER
Ialnlng To technical and scientific terms spe-
cially valuable to the general reader The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUNcIA-
TIoN. His system of Notation, which is easily un-
derstood and founded on more complete anal ysif
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities relation to words differ.
emily pronounced by different orthoepists, gives to
THIS work important advantages as a Pronouncine
Dictionary. In oRTAoeRAPHY he has made 90 ar
oltrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and tc
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma.
ton. Thcinsertion Of Grammatical forms and in
dectlons of words to a much greater extent thar
they are given in other English Dictionaries and
the short critical notes the photography the pro-
uunclatlon, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical, local and Ameri.
can uses OF words interspersed through the volume
give to this work much additional value. The CO.
pious Vocabulary Of Modern Biographies names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
annexation of Classicaland Scriptureproper names
are important appendages TO the Dictionary.
Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
was published; and its already extensive use, botl
among cultivated English readers and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony ofits merits. W.
confidently recommend it as containing ample
and careful view ofthe present state OF our Ian
guagc.
JARED SPARKS, LII. d.
Mclean Professor of Ancient and Modern
History, Harvard University.
Holm MCLEAN II,
Justice U. S. Supreme Court Ohio
MOSES STUART, ID. ID.
Professor Of Sacred Literature,
Seminary, Andover, Mass.
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Abbot Professor of Christian Theology ,Theo-
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President of Williams College Mass
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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and OratorJ
Harvard University.
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| Late Professor of Hebrew, &c Harvard Uni
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