A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from the American DictionaryHuntington and Savage, Mason and Law, 1850 - 546 pages |
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A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from the American Dictionary Noah Webster Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
adorn affected animal beat Belonging bird body botany cause CH like SH church close cloth color Consisting costive Destitute disease dress dull earth excite fasten female fish flower fowl fruit Furnished genus Goth heat heraldry horse inclose instrument kind land letter light liquor loose manner marriage mean ment metal mind move ness one's pain pericarp person Pertaining piece plant Producing pron PULL quadruped resembling round ship shrub side skin soft sound species stone strip substance swelling syllable Tending thing thou tion tree TUNE utter v. t. Fr v. t. L v. t. pret v. t. To cover v. t. To deprive v. t. To form v. t. To give v. t. To put v. t. To take versed vessel Want wind wood words writing
Fréquemment cités
Page 59 - A figure in poetry, by which a short syllable after a complete foot is made long ; a pause in verse.
Page 142 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Page 259 - Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective. Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it.
Page ix - I spent ten years in this comparison of radical words, and in forming a synopsis of the principal words in twenty languages, arranged in classes, under their primary elements or letters. The result has been to open what are to me new views of language, and to unfold what appear to be the genuine principles on which these languages are constructed. After completing this synopsis...
Page 416 - In ordination to the priesthood this grace is, or includes supernatural power, giving ability to transubstantiate the bread and wine in the Eucharist into the body and blood of Christ, to remit sin, to render the sacraments efficacious, &c.
Page 157 - It is that strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency.
Page 245 - Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.
Page 72 - The adjuncts of a fact, which make it more or less criminal, or make an accusation more or less probable ; accident ; something adventitious; incident ; event.
Page 188 - Ides fell on the 15th of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th of the other months. 3. Domesticam tuam difficultatem. " Your domestic difficulties,
Page 145 - Faith, in its most general sense, is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is .declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity without other evidence.