God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Lexicographers who translate the word junḥ pars noctis, even on the authority of native lexicons, e.
But these instances of its use are too frequent, its declination too varied, and in both genders, to admit the idea that they are the result of error or casualty, although some lexicographers seem to reject it.
Our lexicographerscall it an impersonal verb, because, being compounded with an objective, it cannot have a nominative expressed.
What I here say, accords with the teaching of all ourlexicographers and grammarians, except one dauntless critic, who has taken particular pains to put me, and some three or four others, on the defensive.
Why do lexicographers spell thinnish and mannish with two Ens, and dimmish and rammish with one Em, each?
They are therefore not properly adverbs, though all our grammarians and lexicographers call them so.
Methinks, explanation of; thelexicographers on the word.
There is no certainty of its truth; and our lexicographers make no allusion to it.
Our lexicographers generally treat the word firearms as a close compound that has no singular.
Although this citation, one from Paradise Lost, and one from Shakespeare's ll4th Sonnet are given by lexicographersas examples of adverbial use, it is by no means clear that the word is not an adjective in each instance.
This usage of the term has gained a place in modern English, as lexicographers agree.
Homology" is defined by lexicographers as "the doctrine of similar parts.
Note: Although this citation, one from Paradise Lost, and one from Shakespeare's ll4th Sonnet are given by lexicographersas examples of adverbial use, it is by no means clear that the word is not an adjective in each instance.
It is true that the pictorial clue of many Chinese ideographs can not now be traced, and even Chinese lexicographers admit that combinations frequently contribute only a phonetic value.
He was amazed at the stupidity of lexicographers who could not discern for all their learning the pictorial values which were to him perfectly obvious and apparent.
Lexicographers do not recognize this usage of the word.
These uses are to be found to-day recorded by the dictionaries because lexicographers recognize it is their duty to present the language as they find it used by the people.
The use of intend for mean, as in explanatory sentences, is not commonly approved although it has the sanction of literary usage, and is considered correct bylexicographers who in defining the words treat them as interchangeable.
But lexicographers disregard this distinction and declare that inaugurate may be correctly used to mean also “to set in operation; to initiate; to originate; as to inaugurate reforms.
Indefinite phrases used by some lexicographers to introduce definitions; as “a kind of bird”; “a sort of box.
Lexicographers do not restrict the meaning of hurry to “to confuse by undue haste or suddenness,” but define it as “to cause to be done rapidly or more rapidly; accelerate.
They agree in their inconsistencies, and have brought over other lexicographers in some cases to their disposition to double the l.
Johnson was the Magnus Apollo oflexicographers then, and his bulky fame still casts a large shadow over the world of words.
The editors of the latest edition find no occasion to revise this rule, and report that other lexicographers advise a conformity to it, but they record a large number of exceptions to satisfy "the prejudice of the eye.
The word “grace” is defined by lexicographers as favor or mercy.
Lexicographers define the word as meaning “an abandonment of what one has professed.
Lexicographers have defined and analyzed the word baptize in its different forms.
So nearly universal is this nasalization in the United States that certain American lexicographers have sought to found the term upon /bran/ and not upon /brand/.
It held the field for half a century, not only against Worcester and the other American lexicographers who followed him, but also against the best dictionaries produced in England.
Worcester and other rival lexicographers stood against many of his pronunciations, and he took the field against them in the prefaces to the successive editions of his spelling-books.
Here again we have the lexicographers to thank, for no one of them has given us a practical guide.
It is doubtful whether any book or periodical ever fully reproduced the spelling of any dictionary, for the simple reason that lexicographers do not recognize the practical needs of printers.
We write to ask what, if any, warrant you have among grammarians orlexicographers for the lower-case initial letter in an adjective of this class.
Here again we see the origin of an every day word, scouted by lexicographers and snubbed by respectable persons, but still a word of frequent and popular use.
Termed by Johnson a cant word, but adopted by laterlexicographers as a respectable term.
Lexicographers have fought shy at adopting this word.
CHEAT now-a-days means to defraud or swindle, and lexicographers have tortured etymology for an original—but without success.
For Pradivin the Petersburg lexicographers would read Prajivin, as in the Panchatantra.
The Petersburg lexicographers remark that sampadad is "wohl fehlerhaft.
The Petersburg lexicographerswould read paurastya; and I find this in the Taylor MS.
The Petersburg lexicographers explain takka as Geizhals, Filz; but say that the word thaka in Marathi means a rogue, cheat.
The Petersburg lexicographers spell the word Sibi.
Pandit Syama Charan Mukhopadhyaya thinks that the word dantaghataka must mean "dentist:" the Petersburg lexicographers take it to mean, "a worker in ivory.
The Petersburg lexicographers explain this as a Chandala, a man of the lowest rank, a kind of Kirata.
The older lexicographers obscured the etymology of sentry, which is really quite simple, by always attempting to treat it along with sentinel.
Page Heading: GHOST-WORDS] The readiness of lexicographers to copy from each other sometimes leads to ludicrous results.
Lexicographers for a long time objected to the adoption of this term.
Cheat nowadays means to cozen or defraud, and lexicographers have tortured etymology for an original--but without success.
Here again we see the origin of an every-day word, scouted by lexicographersand snubbed by respectable persons, but still a word of frequent and popular use.
Termed by Johnson a "cant word," but adopted by later lexicographers as a respectable term.
On the other hand, the native Assyrian etymology is as inadmissible as the endeavours of our eighteenth century lexicographers to find Greek or Latin derivations for Anglo-Saxon words.
Even if the rights of mankind had not been in question, the interests of Greek literature were, one would think, sufficient to have induced him to enlighten our best lexicographers with respect to the use of the word under consideration.
If such, indeed, be found among the meanings of the word, these celebrated lexicographers were as ignorant of the fact as ourselves.
Our lexicographers give it a similar origin, but refer it to the shape in which it was put up.
For our present purpose it will be best to consider all under this head, whether really belonging to one or the other sensation; and the lexicographers themselves admit the commonalty of taste and smell in the word flavor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lexicographers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
