The republic., 1851-01-01
WoreesIer's Universal and Critical Die
Lionnry OF the English Language.
BY J. T.. WORCESTER LII. ID


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following eminent testimony to the excellence of
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The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
to it's title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference ismadt 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 clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms spe-
cially valuable to the general reader The author
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TON His system of Notation, which is easily
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
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Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he'has made no
bitfary changes, but where usage is various and
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reduce to the same rules words of similarfUrma-
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fectiUhs OF words to much greater extent than
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pouo Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names.
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Mclean Professor Of Ancient and Modern
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Justice U. $. Supreme Court, Ohio.
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Professor of Sacred Literature,
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Abbot Professor Of Christian rnee.ogy, rheo-
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President of Williams College, Mass
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Boyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory,
Harvard University.
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Professor of Bellies Lettres, Harvard Uni
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Bishop of Pennsy vania
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Late Professor of Hebrew, Sc, Harvard Uni
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PRESIDENT OF Geneva College, N. Y.
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Protessor III Jefferson Med. Col. Philadelphia.
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Editor of the North American Review.
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