The First Book of Etymology: Designed to Promote Precision in the Use, and Facilitate the Acquisition of a Knowledge of the English Language : for BeginnersE.C. & J. Biddle, 1849 - 215 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7 - Rule II. The final consonant of a monosyllable, if preceded by a single vowel, is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel ; as, hat, hatter.
Pàgina 176 - Pandect, att the words, all the sayings. Pandects, in the plural, the digest or collection of civil or Roman law, made by order of the emperor Justinian and containing 534 decisions or judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor gave the force and authority of law. This compilation consists of fifty books, forming the first parts of the civil law.
Pàgina 91 - ... in temples (fana ;) and being often seized with a kind of enthusiasm, as if inspired by the Divinity, showed wild and antic gestures, cutting and slashing their arms with knives, shaking the head, &c.
Pàgina 5 - Etymology of the English language, treats 'of the true origin and meaning of English 'words. English words are either Primitive or Derivative. A Primitive word is not derived from any simpler word in the language ; as, sweet, tract. A Derivative word is formed from a Primitive word by adding or prefixing a syllable ; as, sweeten, at/racf, at/rae/ion.
Pàgina 3 - PREFACE. THE present volume is the first of a series of books designed as aids to the student of Etymology.
Pàgina 2 - Congress, in the year 1847, by EC &. J. BIDDLE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Pàgina 8 - RULE V. The final y of a radical word, when preceded by t, is generally omitted before a suffix beginning with a or o; as, purity-an, puritan ; felicity-ous, felicitous.
Pàgina 168 - AN'AGRAM," the change of one word into another by the transposition of its letters.
Pàgina 169 - Ephemerides, in astronomy, a collection of tables showing the present state of the heavens for every day at noon ; that is, the places wherein all the planets or heavenly orbs are found at that time.
Pàgina 176 - PAN'THEISM, the doctrine that the universe is God. PANTHE'ON, a temple dedicated to all the gods. PAN'TOGRAPH, a machine to copy any sort of drawing or design. PAN'TOMIME, a play in which only gesture and dumb show are used.