A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their PresentMacmillan, 1873 - 275 páginas |
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... original collection of passages illus- trative of the history of our language . Of my citations , I believe about a thousand in all , I may owe some twenty at the most to existing xii Preface to the First Edition . Dictionaries or ...
... original collection of passages illus- trative of the history of our language . Of my citations , I believe about a thousand in all , I may owe some twenty at the most to existing xii Preface to the First Edition . Dictionaries or ...
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... original identity with ' bleach ' in the following quotations . When she came out , she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead . - FoxE , Book of Martyrs ; The Escape of Agnes Wardall . And as I looked forth , I ...
... original identity with ' bleach ' in the following quotations . When she came out , she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead . - FoxE , Book of Martyrs ; The Escape of Agnes Wardall . And as I looked forth , I ...
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... original ; but no such dishonest intention was formerly implied in the word . I woll none of the apostles contrefete : I woll have money , wolle chese and whete , Al were it yeven of the pourest page , Or of the pourest widewe in a ...
... original ; but no such dishonest intention was formerly implied in the word . I woll none of the apostles contrefete : I woll have money , wolle chese and whete , Al were it yeven of the pourest page , Or of the pourest widewe in a ...
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... original ' detestari , ' openly to witness against , and not merely to entertain an inward abhorrence of , a thing ; as in attest ' and ' protest ' the etymological meaning still survives . It is not easy to adduce passages which ...
... original ' detestari , ' openly to witness against , and not merely to entertain an inward abhorrence of , a thing ; as in attest ' and ' protest ' the etymological meaning still survives . It is not easy to adduce passages which ...
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... original sense of build . ' ( Bible Word Book ) . . I shall overturne this temple , and adoun throwe it , And in thre daies after edifie it new . Piers Ploughman , 11068 . And the Lord God edifiede the rib , the which he toke of Adam ...
... original sense of build . ' ( Bible Word Book ) . . I shall overturne this temple , and adoun throwe it , And in thre daies after edifie it new . Piers Ploughman , 11068 . And the Lord God edifiede the rib , the which he toke of Adam ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy Archbishop Williams Authorized Version BEN JONSON Bishop Book of Martyrs Cæsar called CHAUCER Christ Christian Church common COVERDALE death derived discourse earlier employed English equivalent ERSITY Essays etymology evil Fairy Queen formerly French German God's gold grace Grand Mystery Greek HAMPOLE hath heaven Henry Henry VI History of King HOLLAND Holy honour humour ingenuity Jeremy Taylor JONSON Julius Cæsar language Latin Livy Lord meaning MILTON mind modern Mystery of Godliness Naaman the Syrian natural never once Paradise Lost passages peevish person Piers Ploughman Pisgah Sight Pliny Plutarch's Lives Plutarch's Morals Preface present princes quotation RICHARD ROLLE Roman schal Scripture sense Sermons seventeenth century SHAKESPEARE Sight of Palestine signified soul SPENSER Tale thee thing thou Troilus and Cressida UNIV unto verb viii Vulg WICLIF William Thorpe World of Words Worthies of England writers younker