An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1840 - English language |
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... grounded in or produced by experience ; an expression founded in and approved by proof or trial of the matter in point . Proeve , proef , proof , experience , trial . Werpe , the third person potential mood of werpen , to produce , to ...
... grounded in or produced by experience ; an expression founded in and approved by proof or trial of the matter in point . Proeve , proef , proof , experience , trial . Werpe , the third person potential mood of werpen , to produce , to ...
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... grounded in scheppen ( to take up , to take into , to receive in , to draw in , ) from the preterite form of which [ ick schoppe ] we have our term scoop . A MOUNTEBANK . In the well - known meaning of a stage orator ; one who boasts ...
... grounded in scheppen ( to take up , to take into , to receive in , to draw in , ) from the preterite form of which [ ick schoppe ] we have our term scoop . A MOUNTEBANK . In the well - known meaning of a stage orator ; one who boasts ...
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... grounded in to moil , in the sense of to labour ; but where is the prefix tur to be fetched from ? Besides , it is labour of mind , not of body , that is implied by the term . 66 He seeks with torment and TURMOIL To force me live , and ...
... grounded in to moil , in the sense of to labour ; but where is the prefix tur to be fetched from ? Besides , it is labour of mind , not of body , that is implied by the term . 66 He seeks with torment and TURMOIL To force me live , and ...
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... grounded in an onamatopy of sound , which has been extended to the pipe as the mean by which an analogous sound is produced : and thence to the pipe as of the shape of that instrument and also a conductor . " Another shall have as moche ...
... grounded in an onamatopy of sound , which has been extended to the pipe as the mean by which an analogous sound is produced : and thence to the pipe as of the shape of that instrument and also a conductor . " Another shall have as moche ...
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... grounded in vulling , vullinck , a filling , a stuffing , and thus as that which fills out the cavity which contains them , the belly - bag , but not as that which is stuffed out , as when the term is used in the meaning of a sausage or ...
... grounded in vulling , vullinck , a filling , a stuffing , and thus as that which fills out the cavity which contains them , the belly - bag , but not as that which is stuffed out , as when the term is used in the meaning of a sausage or ...
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analogous Anglo-Saxon aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German gode grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote