Shall I anticipate Mr. Bolton Corney, or some other of your acute glossarial correspondents, if I offer another suggestion, in reply to "C.
The Glossarial Index contains besides the obsolete terms all those words the spelling or the signification of which essentially differs from that now accepted.
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This is best done by the proper process of reading the text; but even the usual glossarial indexes will often furnish ready examples.
The relative value of the grammatical andglossarial tests is not constant.
The extent to which the glossarial evidence agrees with the phonetic has yet to be investigated, the doctrine here indicated being a suggestion rather than aught else.
In this is involved the question as to the relative value of grammatical and glossarial coincidences.
The chief of these are the additional prefaces to the various pieces, the glossarial notes at the foot of the page, and the collation of such pieces as are taken from the folio MS.
The complete glossary, which will be appended to the third volume, might seem to render the glossarial notes unnecessary; but there may be some readers who will find them useful.
My obligations to these two ladies began many years ago, as they undertook most of the glossarial work of my smaller edition of the Man of Law's Tale (with others); work which is now incorporated with the rest.
Hence Chaucer has both wil and wille; see the Glossarial Index.
These are only some of the passages of direct glossarial value.
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Now it is imaginable that the glossarial and grammatical tests may be at variance.
What has been the effect of the antagonism between the philologico-grammatical and the philologico-glossarial test?
Such are some of the facts and suggestions which help to account for the glossarial difference between the American languages, a phænomenon which, even though occasionally overstated, is still a reality to a certain degree.
The Peninsular languages have a general glossarial connection with a third class.
The present notices being indicative of grammatical affinities only, theglossarial points of likeness between the Welsh and Irish are omitted.
These are points of pronunciation, points of grammatical structure, and glossarial peculiarities.
