10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNONYMIST»
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The following is given to eXemplify the distinction of ' clock and dial,' (which, by-
the-bye, a synonymist had nothing to do with,) but would have served better to
elucidate the difference of anualist and historian :— 'The annalist Muratori ...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Without the elegant precision of Girard, without his dexterous choice of examples,
which makes instruction both amuse and tell, the German synonymist has
produced a work of fuller and sounder information. It is voluminous, it is heavy, it
is ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1804
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
"Without the elegant precision of Girard, without his dexterous choice of
examples, which makes instruction both amuse and tell, the German synonymist
has produced a work of fuller and sounder information. It is voluminous, it is
heavy, it is ...
The following is given to exemplify the distinction of ' clock and dial,' (which, by-
the-bye, a synonymist had nothing to do with,) but would have served better to
elucidate the difference of annalist and historian : — ' The annalist Muratori ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1827
5
The Quarterly Review (London)
In proportion to the advancement of society in science, arts, literature, and
general refinement, the task of the synonymist becomes more diflicult, but at the
same time more requisite, for the growing complication of ideas increases as
much the ...
6
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... and were not restricting those words to one sense of their key term. For
instance, one synonymist of this period gave as the synonyms of stain blot, color,
discolor, disgrace, dishonor, dye, soil, spot, sullv, tarnish, tinge, tint, It is true that
not all ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
Imprisonment is synonymist to enslavement as it is to confinement only
camouflaged by hues diversified to make it equal across the lines but, as a
collective view not justified for in captivity you will find all kinds of crimes against
humanity and ...
Naeriyah JoAn B Daniel Dyer
8
Philologia Anglicana: or, a Philological and synonymical ...
So also the ingenious French synonymist seems to consider this idea of
boundless expanse as one, among other characters, which distinguishes abyme
from its synonymes precipice and goufr¢-—“ L' abyme ne present que des routes
...
Benjamin DAWSON (Rector of Burgh, Suffolk.), 1806
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Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research: ...
John Wilkins as a synonymist and lexicographer Crabb's claim to be the first in
the field of scientific English synonymy is obviously false. He must have known of
John Wilkins, if not because Wilkins like Crabb was of Magdalen Hall, Oxford,6 ...
Julie Coleman, Anne McDermott, 2004
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An Essay on the means of discovering the senses of Words
... conducive to habits of diligence, acuteness, and accuracy in study, that he
should be able to discover the meanings of words for himself, than that he should
be taught to rely on the ipse dixit of a lexicographer, synonymist, or commentator.
John Philips POTTER, 1828
