The republic., 1852-01-08
WOrcestrr's UnIversnI and Critical Die
ionary OF the English Language.

BYJ. E. WORCESTER, LII. ID
One oO!ums, SvO. sheep, 1882 pages-Prict S 3 50
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The execution Of this Observation-Disclosures
to it's title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference smade TO
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and is taken to note such aretechni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. lhe
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 rRoNUNClA-
TIoN. His system of Notation, which is easily un-
derstood and founded on more ecomplcte anal ysls
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 aPronounclng
Dictionary. In oRTHOoRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
iuctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and tc
reduce to the same rules words OF similar forna-
ton Theinsertion of Grammatical forms and in.
| hections of words to much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries and
the short critical notes the orthography the pro-
nuncIatlon, the grammatical form and construc-
tion and the peculiar, technical, local, and Ameri
can uses of fwordsinterspersed through the volume
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pious Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
| and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunciation of Classicaland Scriptureproper names
arc important appendages to the Dictionary
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