The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-19

/ means nothing more or less. Richardson
! is all wrong upon this word. He gives leopard
/ as noun and jeopardize as verb, bv inadver-
tence, perhaps, for all his examples are to the
! contrary.
Bxperimentalize is a word of the same charac.
ter as the foregoing. 1t has no righful place in
| the language, and is both uncouth and preteu-
! tlous. The term ize, which we have bor-
lowed from the Greek, is not to be tackled ind s.
| criminately to any word in the language, verbs
and adverbs as well as adectives and nouns for
the purpose Of making new verbs that are not
needed. 1t has a meaning and that mean
ing seems to be continuity of action; Ger
momentary. Thus equalize-to make equal;
natuTallze-to make as natural; civIliZe 20
make civil: so moralize legalze, humanize,
etc. But the people who use experimental ~
use II meaning to try experiments. Expert
ment, however, is both noun aud verb ana will
serve all purposes not better served by try aud
trial.
. Controyersias! and controversationa,st toD
frequently heard, are inadmissible for like
reasons TO those given against rimentalize
ISL is the substantive form of the verbal ize
Ihe proper words are controversial and convpr
ssatlonlst. The oilers have no place In the
Preventative, Casualty, and Aerlcultnralist
receive passing notice, only because they are
lard SO often Instead of preventive, casualty.
ne. 'st- They ought to be, bat | fear
and agrioutuI.; ut an utter want Of
that they are not, evidence,
education and low grade of intelieeuUe.
Donate.-l need hardly say, / hope, to any
reader of these articles that this word is utterly
abominable-one that any lover of simple,
honest English cannot hear with patience aud
without ohense. 1t has been formed by some
presuming and ignorant person from donation,
and is much such word as voca.e would be
from vocation, crate from Grafton, or graduate
from gradatlon, and this, when we have give,
present, grant, confer, endow, bequeath, devise,
with which to express the act of tran sterripg
possession in all Its possible varieties. The drst
OF these Will ans wer the purpose 10 most cases
better than either of these words, and donation
nself is nos among our best words. If any mau
THINKS tnat he and his gilt are made to seem
more imposing because the latter is called a
Gonation which he donates. let him remember
that when "Antonio" requires that the
wealthy "Shylockh shall leave all he dies
possessed OF to Lorenzo" and 'Jossica,"
he stipulates that che do record gittn of it,
and that "Porua" in consequence says "Clerk,
draw deed of gift;n and more, the writers OF
the simplest and noblest English that has been
written called the 0mnipotent 1.-THE Giver of
every good and perfect git.'
Gent and Pants.-Let these words go together
like the things they signify. The one always
wears the other.
Resurrected,-This amazing combination has
lately appeared in some of our newspapers, one
ofthem edited by man WHO has been Clerk of
the Senate. What Is it intended 10 mean? Pos
slbly the same act which people who speak
English mean when they say that Lazarus was
raised from the dead The formation of resur-
rect from resurrection is Just of piece with
the formation of donate from donation. But it is
somewhat worse; Tor resurrected is used to mean
raised, and resurrection does not mean raising,
but rising. Thus we speak of the raising of
Lazarus, but the resurrection of Christ; of
Gods raising the dead, but of the resurre ction
of the dead.