A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Том 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... Hooker . On the parliament's part it was proposed , that all the bishops , deans , and chapters , might be im- mediately taken away , and abolished . Clarendon . 2. To put an end to , to destroy . since abolished . The long continued ...
... Hooker . On the parliament's part it was proposed , that all the bishops , deans , and chapters , might be im- mediately taken away , and abolished . Clarendon . 2. To put an end to , to destroy . since abolished . The long continued ...
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... Hooker . Idolatry is certainly the first - born of folly , the great and leading paradox ; nay , the very abridg ment and sum total of all absurdities . 2. A diminution in general . South . All trying , by a love of littleness , To make ...
... Hooker . Idolatry is certainly the first - born of folly , the great and leading paradox ; nay , the very abridg ment and sum total of all absurdities . 2. A diminution in general . South . All trying , by a love of littleness , To make ...
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... Hooker . Shakspeare . 2. Unconditional ; as , an absolute promise . Although it runs in forms absolute , yet it is in deed conditional , as depending upon the qualifi cation of the person to whom it is pronounced . South's Sermons . 3 ...
... Hooker . Shakspeare . 2. Unconditional ; as , an absolute promise . Although it runs in forms absolute , yet it is in deed conditional , as depending upon the qualifi cation of the person to whom it is pronounced . South's Sermons . 3 ...
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... Hooker . A'CCESSORY . n . s . [ accessorius , Lat . ac- cessoire , Fr. This word , which had an- ciently a general signification , is now almost confined to forms of law . ] 1. Applied to persons . A man that is guilty of a felonious ...
... Hooker . A'CCESSORY . n . s . [ accessorius , Lat . ac- cessoire , Fr. This word , which had an- ciently a general signification , is now almost confined to forms of law . ] 1. Applied to persons . A man that is guilty of a felonious ...
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... Hooker . Each Christmas they accompts did clear ; And wound their bottom round the year . Prior . ACCOMPTANT . n . s . [ accomptant , Fr. ] A reckoner ; a computer . See Accoun- TANT . As the accompt runs on , generally the ac- comptant ...
... Hooker . Each Christmas they accompts did clear ; And wound their bottom round the year . Prior . ACCOMPTANT . n . s . [ accomptant , Fr. ] A reckoner ; a computer . See Accoun- TANT . As the accompt runs on , generally the ac- comptant ...
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Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
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