A Dictionary of the English LanguageThomas Tegg, 1813 |
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... verb , as , These are our books . These books are ours . Your children excel ours in stature , but ours sur- pass ... VERB . English verbs are active , as I love ; or reu ter , as I languish . The neuters are formed like the actives ...
... verb , as , These are our books . These books are ours . Your children excel ours in stature , but ours sur- pass ... VERB . English verbs are active , as I love ; or reu ter , as I languish . The neuters are formed like the actives ...
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... verbs have , shall , will , let , may , cun , and the infinitive of the active or neuter verb . The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterite to the substantive verb , as I am loved . To hate . Indicative Mood ...
... verbs have , shall , will , let , may , cun , and the infinitive of the active or neuter verb . The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterite to the substantive verb , as I am loved . To hate . Indicative Mood ...
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... verb to be , which must therefore be here exhibited . Indicative . Present , 471 Sing . I am , thou art , he is ; Plur . We are or be , ye are or be , they are or be . The plural he is now very little in use . Preterite . Sing . I was ...
... verb to be , which must therefore be here exhibited . Indicative . Present , 471 Sing . I am , thou art , he is ; Plur . We are or be , ye are or be , they are or be . The plural he is now very little in use . Preterite . Sing . I was ...
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... verbs to sow , to shew , to hew , to mow , to load , to lade . Concerning the double participles it is diffi cult to give any rule ; but he shall seldom err who remembers , that when a verb has a parti- ciple distinct from its preterite ...
... verbs to sow , to shew , to hew , to mow , to load , to lade . Concerning the double participles it is diffi cult to give any rule ; but he shall seldom err who remembers , that when a verb has a parti- ciple distinct from its preterite ...
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... verbs . The thing implied in the verb , as done or produced , is commonly either the present of the verb ; as , to love , love ; to fright , a fright ; to fight , a fight ; or the preterite of the verb , as , to strike , I strick or ...
... verbs . The thing implied in the verb , as done or produced , is commonly either the present of the verb ; as , to love , love ; to fright , a fright ; to fight , a fight ; or the preterite of the verb , as , to strike , I strick or ...
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Addison adjective Ainsworth animal Arbuthnot Atterbury Ayliffe Bacon Belonging Ben Jonson Bentley bird Blackmore body Boyle Brown Bucon Burnet Camden Carew cause Cheyne Clarendon Collier colour corrupted Cowel Cowley Davies Decay of Piety degree Denham Deuteronomy Dict Digby Donne Dryd Dryden Dutch Fairfax fish flower fore French give Glanville Grew ground Hale Hammond Harvey Hayward herb Holder Hooker horse Howel Hudibras Jonson kind King Knolles L'Estrange Latin liquor Locke low Latin manner ment Miller Milton mind Mortimer motion Moxon ness Newton noise noun Obsolete Peacham person Philips plant Pope pret preter preterite Prior publick Quincy Raleigh Rogers Roscommon Saxon Shak Shakesp Shakespeare ship Sidney sound South Spectator Spenser Stillingfleet Swift Tatler Taylor Temple thing Thomson Tillotson tion tree v. a. mis verb vessel violence Waller Watts Wiseman Woodward word Wotton