by dropping or altering the Latin termination, or by the substitution of one vowel for another, as i for a, e for a, &c.

cornu, a horn

corn

English words. cordial, concord

corpus (corporis), the body corpus, corpu, corpuscle, corpulent

corpor

cras

unicorn, cornet

incorporate

cred

crem

cremation
crucify
incubation

incumbent

cruc

cubo (cumbo), Ilie

culpable, culprit

curator

sinecure

The meaning of many of the words given as examples the student will either know already or may deduce from the etymology. In other cases some additional aid may be required. That aid I shall supply in quotations and in such remarks as the several topics may seem to require.

"Those milks (in certain plants) have all an acrimony, though one would think they should be lenitive."-Bacon, "Nat. Hist."

"Most satyrists are indeed a public scourge,
Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge,
Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirred,
The milk of their good purpose all to curd."

Couper.

Acer is properly that which is sharp as the point of a spear, or the edge of a sword, that which pricks or cuts; whereas acerbus (acerbity) denotes that which is bitter to the taste.

According to its derivation, edification is house-building. The spiritual house is intended, the metaphor being borrowed from the diction of the New Testament. Consult 1 Cor. iii. 9; xiv. 3; Ephes. ii. 21; iv. 12, 16.

"So that it is by the equilibre of the muscles, by the aid of a considerable and equipollent (equally powerful) muscular force in constant exertion, that the head maintains its erect posture."-Paley, “Nat. Hist."

"Government has coercion (restraint) and animadversion upon such as neglect their duty."- South.

Articulation is properly the making of articles, that is, small limbs or joints; hence dividing a flow of sound so as to produce separate and distinct sounds, that is letters and syllables. This power belongs only to man. Accordingly, Homer, that great master of distinctive and descriptive epithets, gives as the characteristic of the human race that they articulate.

"The first of these, at least, I thought denied

To beast, whom God on their creation-day
Created mute to all articulate sound."

Milion, "Paradise Lost."

"The former (fore) legs of this animal (the elephant) appear when

he standeth, like pillars of flesh without any evidence of articulation."Brown, "Vulgar Errors."

"P'ère Bougeant's third volume will give you the best idea of the treaty of Munster, and open to you several views of the belligerent and contracting parties."-Chesterfield.

Derivatively considered, to combine is to put things together in pairs, but it is employed without this restriction to signify to put together generally.

"The impediments were-first, the negligence of the pastors; secondly, combinations, that is, double benefices, when men having two cures could not sufficiently attend both."-Hales.

"Few painters have obliged us with finer scenes, or have possessed the art of combining woods, lakes, and rocks into more agreeable pictures, than G. Poussin."-Hurd.

It is curious to see in incubation, the act of the hen in setting on her eggs, and incumbency, the condition of a clergyman as occupant of a living, how the same stem, and very nearly the same letters, may come to signify things so very unlike.

Cadaverous comes immediately from cadaver, a corpse, and denotes the colour or complexion of a corpse. Cadaver, a corpse, by its etymology points out the fact which denotes death, namely, falling, from cado, I fall. A dead body cannot stand.

"The subject of the present chapter will be the offence of homicide, or destroying the life of man, in its several stages of guilt, arising from the particular circumstances of mitigation or aggravation which attend it."-Blackstone, "Commentaries."

Homicide, that is, in its corresponding Saxon term, manslaughter, denotes the general act of man-killing, leaving it to be decided whether the killing was or was not murder, that is, premeditated killing. Unpremeditated man-killing is generally termed manslaughter, as contradistinguished from murder. It deserves attention, that not one of these words, homicide, manslaughter, man-killing, murder (Ger. mord, murder; Fr. mort, death; Lat. mort, and Gr. moros, death), conveys in itself the idea of "malice aforethought."

Clinical is a scientific word, and like most of our scientific words may have come to us from the Greek; for the Greek klino is the root of the Latin clino, and is similar to it in import. A clinical lecture is a discourse on a disease, delivered by the bedside of the patient. A clinical convert is one that is converted on his deathbed. In the early history of the churches, those were called clinici or clinical, who, wishing to have all their sins washed away at once, postponed baptism till their dying hour. See Gibson's remarks on the delay of baptism by Constantine, miscalled the great.

"Horror stalks around

Wild staring, and his sad concomitant

Despair, of abject look."

Philip.

"I persuaded her to take as hot as she could well drink it, every morning, a full draught of the decoction of centaury boiled in beer or ale."-Bayle.

Cordial, of Latin origin, has a corresonding word from the Saxon, that is, hearty. This is by no means a solitary case, as will appear from the ensuing list :

In incorporate, animadvert, and othe swords, the student is expected to make use of the information which he has already had supplied to him regarding prepositions in combination, as well as regarding prefixes and suffixes.

"Cremation, burning, is applied particularly to the ancient custom of destroying corpses by fire. The Chinois, without cremation or urnal interment of their bodies, make use of trees and much burning, while they plant a pine-tree by their grave."-Brown," Urn Burial."

Capillary signifies that which is like hair; hence it is applied to the small vessels of the body, as the ramifications (branches) of the arteries, "the capillaries;" also to tubes; and attraction in tubes as fine as hair, is called "capillary attraction."

"A strict and succinct style is that where you can take away nothing without losse, and that losse to be manifest."-B. Jonson.

"To translate him line for line is impossible, because the Latin is naturally a more succinct language than either the Italian, Spanish, French, or even the English; which by reason of its monosyllables, is far the most compendious of them.”—Dryden.

The idea in succinct, girded, is taken from the custom prevalent among the ancient Greeks and Romans of gathering up and binding around the waist their long flowing robes, when they were about to apply to any manual occupation, Compare Is. viii. 9; John xiii, 4, 5.

EXERCISES FOR PARSING.

Some have termed the "Songs of Solomon, or the Canticles," a Hebrew Epithalamium. The rage for autographs seems to have in a measure subsided. The autographs of the writers of the New Testament are not known to exist. The word apology sometimes signifies defence rather than excuse. The former is the older meaning of the term. The monuments of Egypt are covered with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphics of Egypt have for the most part been at length deciphered. Exodus is the name borne by the second book in the Bible. This name was given to the book because it recounts the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.