 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not In alphabetical order, as they arc In a dictionary, but according to the 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,... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Smith, Samuel Kneeland - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...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 ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of woids — the word being given, to find Its signiilcation,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...the words H contains, and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not In alphabctical order, as they are In a dictionary, but according to the 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,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...words it contains, and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to It, arranged, not hi alphabetical order, as they are in a dictionary, but according to the 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,... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 358 Seiten
...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 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,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...contains, and of the Idiomatic combinations peculiar to It, arranged, not in alebabctical order, as thoy are in a dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meanlne of words— the word being given, to find Its slgniUcatlon,... | |
 | Justin Rudolph Loomis - 1856 - 236 Seiten
...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 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,... | |
 | 1858 - 448 Seiten
...words it contains, aud of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order, as they are in a dictionary, but according to the 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,... | |
 | 1859 - 450 Seiten
...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 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,... | |
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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... 
