The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-21
WOrcester's Universal and Critical Die :
ionary Oftho English Language
By (. WoRcEsrER, IL. d

BYJ T.. w 0RCEsTER, LII. ID
One uolume, 3uo. sheep, 1882 pases-Prict SIS 81
The publishers respectfully invite attention tho
following eminent testimony to the xccllenc. ol
this5tandard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionary Ill answer
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding Englsl
Dictionaries united. Constant reference is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such retcchni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per
tanning to technical and scientific terms re spe-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on rRoNuNcIA-
TIoN. His system of Notation which is easily un-
derstood and founded on more complete anal sic
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
this work important advantages Pronouncine
dictionary. In oRrHooRAPHY he has made no
bitrary 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. Theinsertion Of Grammatical e forms and in
hections OF words to much greater ex tent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries and
the short critical notes the photography the
nunciation, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical local and Amer-
can uses OF wordsinterspersed through the volume,
give to this work much additional value. The &C
plous Vocabulary Of Modern G eogra phica names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walk . Key to the pro-
nunciation of fClassicaland Scripturepropcr names,
are important appendages to the Dictionary
Eighteen months have passed since this DictionaT ~
was published; and its already extensive use both
among cultivated English readers and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony ofits merits We
confidently recommend it as containing a ample
and careful view ofthe present state Of our lam
guage.
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Mclean Professor of Ancient and Modern
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Justice U. s. Supreme Court Ohio
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Professor of Sacred Literature,
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Abbot Professor of Christian Theology ,Theo
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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
Harvard University.
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Late Professor of Hebrew, &c. Harvard Uni-
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President of University of NorthC Carolina.
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Pres't Of the University of Nashville Tenn.
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