Several lexicons and grammars of this tongue, which is in fact only a dialect not far removed from the Chaldee, though in a different alphabetical character, will be found in the bibliographical writers.
Besides the lexicons above-mentioned, it was easy to procure, at no great price, those of Constantin and Scapula.
Besides the lexicons and grammatical treatises that have been mentioned, we have a work first published about 1522, but frequently reprinted, and in much esteem, the Officina of Ravisius Textor.
The reader must be surprised to find that, notwithstanding these high and just commendations of our scholars, no Greek grammars or lexicons were yet printed in England, and scarcely any works in that or the Latin languages.
The following passage on the earlier lexicons may be worth reading.
It was endorsed by the government and served as a weapon for the atheists of the eighteenth century to destroy the religion of France, and finally the lexicons of every language gave an odious meaning to the name Jesuit.
In your final work on a passage you should aim at a faultless rendition, and should spend time and ransack thelexicons rather than come short of this ideal.
Also from some lexicons you may obtain still further help.
Of the smaller lexicons Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Webster's Secondary School Dictionary, the Practical Standard Dictionary, and the Desk Standard Dictionary answer most purposes well.
Shelves, which had held fairy-tale volumes in which truth was depicted with a laughing countenance, now supported serious lexicons from which truth stared out with austerity.
He had exchanged tandem tricycles for lexicons as a means of locomotion to the land of adventure.
We have several Greek lexicons before us, and in not one of them is there any such meaning given to the word.
In preparing his Lexicon of the New Testament, he drew materials from every accessible source; the Lexicons of Parkhurst, Schleusner, Wahl, and Robinson being especially examined and laid under contribution.
The native lexiconsare very many, voluminous and copious.
Hence that lamentable imperfection which pervades all our lexicons and dictionaries, and which can never be rectified but by the revisal of the whole system, and that by a thorough adept in the language of the Irish.
But the dictionaries andlexicons say nothing about these matters?
Lane's assistance in the preparation of Harper's Latin lexiconswas also invaluable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lexicons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
