The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-07
Worcester'S UniversaI and Critical Die
tIonnry OF the English Language.
BrJ. z. WoRcEsrER, LID

BY -. T.. w oRCEsTER, LII.
One volume, 5vo. sheep, 1882 pagss--Price s 3 so
The publishers respectfully invite attention to the
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 TO
AUTHoRITIEs with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such aretechni
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
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUEcIA-
TIoN. His system OF Notation, which is easily un-
derstood, and founded 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
iuctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce TO the same rules words OF similar forma-
tion. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in-
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the short critical notes on the orthography the pro-
nunclatlon, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar technical, local, and Ameri-
can uses of fwordsinterspersed through the volume,
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| pious Vocabulary of Modern Biographies names
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and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunciation Of Classicaland Scriptureproper names,
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