An Analysis of English Words: Designed for the Higher Classes in Schools and Academies, and Forming Part of Sanders' American Educational Series |
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Ac AC act of cutting act of going act of placing act of speaking act of taking ACT'U art of measuring ATE+ED ATE+ION bearing beforehand BEN E breathe CA'TION CATE CHRO CHRYSO CIDE CIRCUM CIS'ION COMPOUNDS consonant continuing DEFINITIONS DERIVATIVES DICTION discourse disease divination doctrine euphonic Ex EX EXERCISE FEROUS flowing FORE FUGE give hence instrument to test INTER IZE+ED JECT join letters LU'TION manner meaning MONO NATE nature nectar NESS niter NOL'O noun OG'RA PHY OL'O GY one's opposite pertaining plant POLY PREFIXES PRETER producing PUL'SION RADICALS rule sacred salifiable scoria SECTION separate signifies sound SPECT stamens SUFFIXES thing TOL'O TRANS treatise TURB VENE VERT vowel word writing wrong Ав Ов Сом
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Page 10 - IX. The final consonant of any word accented on the last syllable, if preceded by a single vowel, is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel; thus, bag +age
Page 10 - VIII. The final consonant of a monosyllable, if preceded by a single vowel, is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel; thus,
Page 11 - X. The final consonant of any word, when not immediately preceded by a single vowel, or when the word is not accented on the last syllable, remains single upon the addition of a suffix; thus,
Page 11 - worshiping, Rule XI. benefited. The final y of a radical word, when preceded by a consonant, is generally changed into i upon the addition of a suffix ; thus,
Page 23 - Exercise XIV. Some of the Prefixes, besides their primary meanings, have certain special powers, or uses, and are thence classed as negative, privative, intensive, or euphonic. As these terms must frequently occur in pursuing this study, and should, therefore, be well understood, the following definitions are given to be committed by the pupil. I. A
Page 240 - a god,) signifies, literally, the state, or condition of having a god within; that is, being under the inspiration of a god ; hence, strong mental excitement; the state in which imagination gets the better of judgment; ardent feeling.
Page 23 - in dislike, which means I do not like, we have dis plainly negative ; while in disarm, which means to deprive of ,arms, the same particle has a privative power. f Notice, that Ex in exasperate, which properly means out, or out of, has not here its appropriate sense; but, serving merely to indicate a high degree
Page 23 - distinction between negative and privative prefixes is very likely to be misunderstood, care should be taken to make it plain. This is easily done by resort to examples. Thus, in dislike, which means I do not like, we have dis plainly negative ; while in disarm, which means to deprive of ,arms, the same particle has a privative power.
Page 143 - Exercise CLXXXV. —a little globe ; a small particle of a spherical form. —a little, or minute animal. —a little tumor, or swelling. —a little, or minute part, or portion. —a little hill; a mound. —a little, or slight fever. —a little ring, or curl. —a little, or petty poet. —a petty crime, or fault. —a little lass. Definitions
Page 233 - country;—Tragedy, (the goat song,) now a sober and dignified representation of great events, terminating usually in a fatal issue, was so named, it is said, because, the reward of those who were victorious in tragic composition, was a goat, which was sacrificed to Bacchus.