Thesaurus of English Words & PhrasesJ. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1914 - English language |
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Absence abstract Adjectives Adverbs ance anfractuosity appulse bear beat bend blind blow boiling break breath bring CALEFACTION cast catch close colour coup course dead draw ence express fall false fancy fire flat flow foot give ground hang hang fire hard Haruspicy heels hesion hold humectation ideas intellect inter Interjections Irrelation keep language latitency Levée en masse light look matter meaning ment mind motion mouth ness nidorous one's eyes one's hand one's head oneself palæstra Pasigraphie pass Phrases plain play premonstration preraphaelite preter reason relation render roll root Science SECTION shade shadow shake short shuffle sion slip sound stand stantives stick Stridor strike Substantives swell Synopsis of Categories thick thing thought throw tion tives turn uncon unconformable uti possidetis Verbs VOLITION waste wind words
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Page 2 - The assistance it gives is that of furnishing on every topic a copious store of words and phrases, adapted to express all the recognizable shades and modifications of the general idea under which those words and phrases are arranged. The inquirer can readily select, out of the ample collection spread out before his eyes in the following pages, those expressions which are best suited to his purpose, and which might not have occurred to him without such assistance.
Page 16 - COSHA, or Vocabulary of the Sanscrit Language, by Amera Sinha, of which an English translation, by the late Henry T. Colebrooke, was printed at Serampoor, in the year 1808. The classification of words is there, as might be expected, exceedingly imperfect and confused, especially in all that relates to abstract ideas or mental operations. This will be apparent from the very title of the first section, which comprehends "Heaven, Gods, Demons, Fire, Air, Velocity, Eternity, Much...
Page 8 - Languages differ very much with regard to the particular words where this distinction obtains ; and may thence afford very strong inferences concerning the manners and customs of different nations.
Page 1 - Is exactly the converse of this : the Idea being given, to find the word or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed.
Page 16 - It professed to be founded on a 'scheme of analysis of the things or notions to which names were to be assigned'; but notwithstanding the immense labour and ingenuity expended in the construction of this system, it was soon found to be far too abstruse and recondite for practical application. In the year 1797, there appeared in Paris an anonymous work, entitled...
Page 16 - Language' , published in 1668, had for its object the formation of a system of symbols which might serve as a universal language. It professed to be founded on a 'scheme of analysis of the things or notions to which names were to be assigned'; but notwithstanding the immense labour and ingenuity expended in the construction of this system, it was soon found to be far too abstruse and recondite for practical application.
Page 1 - The purpose of an ordinary dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words; and the problem of which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus: — The word being given, to find its signification, or the idea it is intended to convey.
Page 7 - It is an universal observation which we may form upon language, that where two related parts of a whole bear any proportion to each other, in numbers, rank or consideration, there are always correlative terms invented, which answer to both the parts, and express their mutual relation. If they bear no proportion to each other, the term is only invented for the less, and marks its distinction from the whole. Thus man and woman, master and servant, father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen...
Page 1 - ... order, as they are in a dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find its signification, or the idea it is intended to convey.