The Etymologic Interpreter, or an Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language (Classic Reprint): To Which Is Prefixed, an ... and Grammar, &c. &c. &c (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The. Plan cfxth'e Dictionary will sber suffici ently.understood by inspection, and therefore afdeseription' of: it? Ihtthis' place is unneceimary. Wherever explanation seemed super?uousnit hasnot Been obtruded; as in the names of familiar objects, such as home, cow, M538; Every pei'sdn has a more distinet perception of. The meaning of such words than can, pose. Sibly be expressed and therefore definition or. Explanation is futile. Partly with the view of rendering the Dictionaryuseful to foreigners, and partly fer the purpose 'of enabling: the English to compare their own. Welds with those'which correspond to them iii other lan fguages the nearest Latin, Italian, French, and Geimtm, synonymes are Subjoined tetheex planation. Thus, it was thought; foreigners might obtain some knowledgeof the Englishferred; hawe'1the same word bin; common; it was not conéidered (necessary to subjoin any learned or foreign synonymes.

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