An Etymological Dictionary of the English LanguageE. C. & J. Biddle, 1868 - 581 стор. |
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acid ancient animal Anti Arche belonging Bini body botany cædo called capio cedo church Circum colour consisting cresco curro Deca denotes derived dico discourse disease divine doctrine duco earth Equus facio fero figure fluo forma genus gero give gonia grapho Greek hence în-is instrument Inter king language Latin latria latum lego ligo literally logos loquor meaning medicine metals metrum mind misceo mitto Monos Multus natural nosco noun nuncio objects Octo oidos one's originally paro paronymous pello person pertaining phano plant plico Poly pono prefix prehendo premo Preter Quadra quæro Quinque rego Roman scopeo scribo Semi sense signifies solidus sound species stamens Stereotypography sterno substance sumo Super syllable teneo Theophilanthropy thing tion traho Trans Trepan Tres Unus venio verse verto volo words writing
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Сторінка xxviii - Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning; whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain this advantage, that, as in such...
Сторінка 188 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Сторінка ii - CO., in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. THE unwonted favour extended to " Bead's Female Poets of America...
Сторінка 136 - The ancients called those fanatici who passed their time in temples (fuña), 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.
Сторінка 460 - In reference to the sources whence it is derived, theology is distinguished into natural or philosophical theology, which relates to the knowledge of God from his works by the light of nature and reason ; and supernatural, positive, or revealed theology, which sets forth and systematizes the doctrines of the Scriptures. With regard to the contents of theology, it is classified into theoretical theology or dogmatics, and practical theology or ethics.
Сторінка 163 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Сторінка xxviii - ... in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong ; it being all one to go about to draw those men out of their mistakes who have no settled notions, as to dispossess a vagrant of his habitation, who has no settled abode.
Сторінка 313 - In a general sense, that branch of literature which comprehends -a knowledge of the etymology or origin, and combination of words...
Сторінка 457 - PROTESTANT, a name first given in Germany to those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther, because in 1529, they protested against a decree of the emperor Charles V. and the diet of Spires; declaring that they appealed to a general council. The...
Сторінка 349 - He does not seem to be a doubting Thomas in this matter, and I should n't wonder if he also prescribed by symptoms. Let us try Worcester, and see what educated men, other than doctors, think of the word: "A perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease. A sign or token : that which indicates the existence of something else. How do we know things? Through our senses — sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. Can we know them in any other way? No; absolutely no. Symptoms then...