 | 1872 - 826 Seiten
...exactly the converse of that of the Dictionary. The word beinggiven, it is the province of the dictionary to find its signification, or the idea it is intended to convey. The 'idea being given, this work furnishes the word or words by which that idea is most fitly and aptly... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 800 Seiten
...and the problem of which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus : — The word bcing given, to find its signification, or the idea it is...exactly the converse of this — namely, the idea bcing given, to find the word or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. For... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 368 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find Its signification, or...idea it is intended to convey. The object aimed at here is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of woids— the word being given, to find Its signification, or...idea it is Intended to convey. The object aimed at here Is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 360 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of woids— the word being given, to find its signification, or...Idea it is intended to convey. The object aimed at here Is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or wordi* by which that... | |
 | William Whewell - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of woids — the word being given, to find its signification, or...idea It is intended to convey. The object aimed at here Is exactly the converse of this : the Idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...dictionary Is simply to explain the meanlne of words— the word being given, to find Its slgniUcatlon, or the Idea It is intended to convey. The object aimed at here is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Smith, Samuel Kneeland - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of woids — the word being given, to find Its signiilcation, or the Idea It Is Intended to convey. The object aimed at here Is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | Justin Rudolph Loomis - 1856 - 236 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find Its signification, or...Idea It Is intended to convey. The object aimed at fare Is exactly the converse of this i the Idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 540 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dietionary Is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find Its signification, or the idea It Is intended to convey. The object alined at here is exaetly the eonverse of this : the Idea being given, to find the word or words by... | |
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English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in a Dictionary, but according to the... 
