A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

Richard Chenevix Trench

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-...,.', Ex Libris C. K. OGDEN LIBRARYTHE OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIAOF LOSANGELES ^' ^^^-^fd^4^ A SELECT GLOSSARY ETC. LONDON: ANDBY LEVEY, FKANKLYN,PRINTED KOBSON, Lane.New Street and FetterGreat SELECT GILOSSAEY OF ENGLISH WORDS USED FORMERLY IN SENSES .^ DIFFERENT FROM THEIR PRESENT. BY EICHARD CHENEVIX D.D.TRENCH, DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. Ees vocabula mauent.fugiunt, hmxH (BbitioiT, xihis&ti anir improkxr. LONDON: JOHN W, PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND. 1859. Pererogation, As for terms of or arecivility, theyhonesty gibberish unto and he a .Jewish Rabbin or a Latin dunce withhim, of monstrous terms.him that useth such formany Ih.Id., p. 175. tutor ?Maiul. Is this your Tutor. Yes lady ;surely, I am the man that him in withbrought league logic, And read the Dunces to him. A ChasteMaid in Act iii. Sc. i .Middleton, Cheapside, late in the seventeenthDutch, century^Till ' orDutchman.)' Dutch' deutsch' teutsch,'{' ' ' meant and aGerman,'theotiscus') generally * Dutchman' a native of while what weGermany, should now term a Dutchman would have been F —66 DUTCH EAGER. named then a I observe it stated in aHollander. volume of in that inrecent travels America^ many 'Germans are now calledthere, Dutchmen/parts the retention of an old even as we find sousage, of this in America.many examples the root of the be Dutch,Though English language yet she l)e said to have been inoculated afterwards amay upon French stock. Lexicon Preface.

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• Semantics

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-...,.',Ex Libris
C. K. OGDEN
LIBRARYTHE
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
CALIFORNIAOF
LOSANGELES^' ^^^-^fd^4^
A SELECT GLOSSARY
ETC.LONDON:
ANDBY LEVEY, FKANKLYN,PRINTED KOBSON,
Lane.New Street and FetterGreatSELECT GILOSSAEY
OF
ENGLISH WORDS USED FORMERLY IN SENSES
.^ DIFFERENT FROM THEIR PRESENT.
BY
EICHARD CHENEVIX D.D.TRENCH,
DEAN OF WESTMINSTER.
Ees vocabula mauent.fugiunt,
hmxH (BbitioiT, xihis&ti anir improkxr.
LONDON:
JOHN W, PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.
1859.P<;REFACE.
This volume is intended to be a Icontribution^
a to a branch ofam aware one^very slight special
It tothe of our ownstudy language. proposes
trace in a manner and for readersgeneralpopular
the of which so of its wordsmeaning manychanges
as current withhave words; which,undergone
meantus as were with our forefathers, yetthey
different on their from what theysomething lips
in out themean on ours. Of successmy carrying
it does notscheme which I had set before myself,
that I havebecome me to tospeak, except say
fallen a deal below andhopes, infinitelygood my
below But of the scheme itself I havedesires.my
no doubts. I feel sure ifthat, only adequately
few works of the same couldcarried out, compass
of more manifold orembrace matter instruction,
it would be morein a of whichregion knowledge
ofdesirable to In the conditionoccupy. present
in above all with theeducation pressureEngland,
1 (t:^? i 'If^SVI PREFACE.
Avliich is ever tomen, increasing,upon young
tlietheir educational course at earliest
complete
the number of those thedate, enjoyingpossible
mental and whichinestimable moral,advantages,
the Latin and themore than otherany languages
ItGreek must ever be smaller.supply, growing
thebecomes therefore a to seek elsewhereduty
substitutes within reach for that ofbest discipline
would betterthe faculties which these languages
And I whenthan other have afforded. believe,any
and lite-these two are set our ownaside, language
furnish the bestrature will substitutes; which,
not areeven satisfy perfectly,though they may
be I am thatnot therefore to persuadedrejected.
of smallthe word word, por-decomposition, by
—of our best andtions poetry prose, Lycidas sug-
as in verse moreitself to me offering exactlygests
somewhat I seek than other perhapsany poem,
—of Bacon's in theEssays prose, compensations
ofwhich we look for are most capable being
found even as I have little doubt that in
; many
schools ofof our compensationshigher English
oftentimes obtained.the kind are already
followed aIn such a to bedecomposition, by
of some small of areconstruction, portions great
matters almost andClassic, innumerable,English
the from wouldon attention side,pressing every
last norclaim to be but notnoticed; certainly
least the on close examination.which,changes