An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language1854 - English language |
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acid ancient animal Anti Arche belonging Bini body botany cado called capio cedo Circum colour consisting cratos cresco curro Deca denotes derived dico discourse disease divine doctrine duco earth Electrum Equus Etymology facio fero figure forma genus gero give gonia grapho Greek hence în-is instrument Inter jacio king language Latin latria latum lego ligo literally logos mancia meaning medicine metals metrum mind misceo mitto Monos Multus natural nosco noun nuncio objects Octo oidos originally paro paronymous pello person pertaining phano plant plico Poly pono prefix prehendo premo Preter Quadra Quinque rego Roman scopeo scribo Semi sense sequor signifies solidus sound species stamens Stereotypography sterno substance sumo Super syllable teneo thing tion tomos traho Trans Trepan Tres Unus venio verse verto volo words writing
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Page 188 - And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page xxviii - Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning; whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain this advantage, that, as in such...
Page xxx - ... the sophist persuades the multitude, that a member of the House of Commons is bound to be guided in all points by the opinion of his constituents ; and, in short, to be merely their spokesman : whereas law and custom, which in this case may be considered as fixing the meaning of the term, require no such thing, but enjoin the representative to act according to the best of his own judgment, and on his own responsibility.
Page 466 - A stroke of lightning is a charge of electricity which passes with terrific force from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud.
Page 272 - Conoid, in geometry, a solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis. If the conic section is a parabola, the resulting...
Page 163 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Page 274 - Olympiad, a period of four years, reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic games to another.
Page 313 - In a general sense, that branch of literature which comprehends -a knowledge of the etymology or origin, and combination of words...
Page xv - The greatest and most important discovery of human ingenuity is writing ; there is no impiety in .saying that it was scarcely in the power of the Deity to confer on man a more glorious present than LANGUAGE, by the medium of which he himself has been revealed to us, and which affords at once the strongest bond of union, and the best instrument of communication.
Page 475 - Scripture, it often denotes the trmtbles and distresses which proceed from persecution. ttt Tribe, a family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, — as, in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. A division, a class or distinct portion of people. The city of Athens was divided into ten tribet.