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Show are notgenuine and regular offsprings of Englifb roets, but becaufe their relation to the primidve bein always the fame, their fignification canhnot be miftaken The verbal nouns in ing, fuch as the keeping of the caffle, the leading of the army, are always negleéted or placed only to illuftrate the fenfe of the verb, except when they fignify things as well as actions, an have therefore a plural number, as dwelling, living; or have an abfolute and abfiral fignification, as colour ing, painting, learning - The participles ate likewife omitted, unlefs, by fignifying rather habit or quality than a&ion, they tak the nature of adjectives; as a shinking man, a man of prudence; a pacing horfe, a horfe that can pace ! thef I have ventured to call participial adjectives But neither are thefe always inferted, becaufe they are comymonly to be underftood, without any danger of miftake, by confulting the verb. Obfolete words are admitt-ed., when they are found in authors not obfolete, or when they have any forc or beauty that may deferve revival ~As compofition is one of the chief charaterifticks of a language, I have endeavoured to make fom reparation for the univerfal negligence of my predeceffors, by inferting great numbers of compounde words, as may be found under after, fore, new, night, fair, and many more Thefe, numerou as the are, might be multiplied, but that ufe and curiofity are here fatisfied, and the frame of our language an clean.sh data import.tsv out README modes of our combination amply difcovered ‘Of fome forms of compofition, fuch as that by which #¢ is prefixed to note repetition, and un to fignify contrariety or privation, all the examples cannot be accumulated, becaufe the ufe of thefe particles if not wholly arbitrary is fo little limited, that they are-hourly affixed to new word or is imagined to require them - There is another kind o which arifes to foreigners th fubjoined; as to come off, t off, to ftop abruptly; to bea as occafion requires compofition more frequent in our language than perhaps4a any other, fro greateft difficulty. We modify the fignification of many words by a particl efcape by a fetch; to fall on, to attack; to fall off, to apoftatize; to brea aut, to juflify ; to fal/l in, to comply; to give over, to ceafe; to fet of, t embellifh; to Jet in, to begin a continual tenour; to fzf out, to begin a courfe or journey; to fake gff; t they arrived at the prefent ufe. Thefe I have noted with great care; and though I cannot flatter myfel that the collettion is complete, I believe I have fo far affifted the ftudents of our language, that this kin of phrafeology will be no longer infuperable; and the combinations of verbs and particles, by chanc omitted, will be edfily explained by comparifon with thofe that may be found copy; with innumerable expreflions of the fame kind, of which fome appear wildly irregular, being f far diftant from the fenfe of the fimple words, that no fagacity will be able to.trace the fteps by whic i e W{H i of lexicographers. Of fuch I have omitted many, becaufe I had never read them; and many I have inferted, becaufe they may perhaps exift, though they have efcaped my notice: they are, however, to b et confidered as refting only upon the credit of former dictionaries. Others, which I confidered as ufeful or know to be proper, though I could not at prefent fupport them by authorities, I have fuffered to ftan upon my own atteftation, claiming the fame privilege with my predecefiors, of being fometimes credite withowut proof clean.sh data import.tsv out README The words, thus feleted and difpofed, are grammatically confidered ; they are referred to the differen farts of fpeech; traced, when they are irregularly infle€ted, through their various terminations; and iluftrated by obfervations, not indeed of great or ftriking importance, {eparately confidered, but neceffar to the elucidation of our language, and hitherto neglected or forgotten by Exglijh grammarians That part of my work on which I expect malignity moft frequently to faften, is the Explanasion; i which I cannot hope to fatisfy thofe, who.are perhaps not inelined to be pleafed, fince I have not alway been able to fatisfy myfelf.. To.interpret a language by itlelf is very difficult; many words cannot b explained by fynonimes, becaufe the idea fignified by them has not more than one appellation ; nor b paraphrafe, becaufe fimple ideas cannot be defcribed. When the nature of things is unknown, or th notion unfettled and indefinite, and various in various minds, the words by which fuch notions are conlexic haplef o fat th i fuc An d perplex an u ambigu b wil denoted thing veyed, or fuc graphy, that not only darknefs, but light, impedes and dzbf‘cre{fes it; things may be not anly too little, bu {0 for, 1 for Diftionaries {ubjoined ; of thefe I am not always certain that they are read in any book but the work Many words yet ftand {fupported only by the name of Bailey, Ainfworth, Philips, or the contratted Dié? |