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, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... sometimes I return only yes , or no , to question- LA CONISM . n . s . [ laconisme , Fr. Laconis- ary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long . Pope mus , Lat . ] A concise style : called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . is As ...
... sometimes I return only yes , or no , to question- LA CONISM . n . s . [ laconisme , Fr. Laconis- ary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long . Pope mus , Lat . ] A concise style : called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . is As ...
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... sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage , We were Two lads , that thought there was no more be- hind , But such a day to - morrow as to - day , And to be boy eternal . Shakspeare . The poor ...
... sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage , We were Two lads , that thought there was no more be- hind , But such a day to - morrow as to - day , And to be boy eternal . Shakspeare . The poor ...
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... sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon . 12. To calm ; to still ; to quiet ...
... sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon . 12. To calm ; to still ; to quiet ...
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... sometimes be re- solved into that not , meaning prevention or care lest a thing should happen . Forty stripes he may give him , and not ex- ceed , lest if he should exceed , then thy brother should seem vile . Deuteronomy . Lest they ...
... sometimes be re- solved into that not , meaning prevention or care lest a thing should happen . Forty stripes he may give him , and not ex- ceed , lest if he should exceed , then thy brother should seem vile . Deuteronomy . Lest they ...
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... sometimes , upon the hour of departure , do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul , beginning to be freed from the liga- ments of the body , reasons like herself , and dis- courses in a strain above mortality . Addison ...
... sometimes , upon the hour of departure , do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul , beginning to be freed from the liga- ments of the body , reasons like herself , and dis- courses in a strain above mortality . Addison ...
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