The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-06
Worcester's UntyerssI RnI Critical Die
iOnary Of the English Language.
BYJ. e. WORCESTER, LID

DfJ r. w ORCEsTER, LII ~
One uOiume, Spo. sheep, 1882 pagss-Prict ) 80
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following eminent testimony y to the excellence of
thisstandard dictionary.
The execution of this sDictionaryfullyanswcrs
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that Of al preceding En- glish
Dictionaries united. Constant reference is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duccd and care is taken to note such are echni
cal, foreign, obsolete provincial, or vulgar The
DEFIsIrIsNs clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms arc spc-
cially valuable to the gene raj reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on rRoSuSciA-
rIoN. His system of Notation which is easiy
dcrstood, and founded on more complete analysis
OF the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best Englsn authorities In relation to words differ.
emily pronounced by different ortboepists, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made
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-
tion. Theinsertion Of rammatica forms and in
iectlons OF words to much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries ,and
the short critical notes the photography the pro-
nunclatIon, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical, local and Ameri
can uses OF w0rdsntcrsperscd through the volume,
give to this work much additional value. The &C.
plous Vocabulary Of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly cnlar geo
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
g.,
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Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
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