 | Goold Brown - English language - 1826 - 122 pages
...additional termination beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving. Exc. Words ending in ce or ge retain the e before able or e«s, to preserve the soft sound of c and g ; as, pence, peaceable, change, changeable ; outrage, outrageous.... | |
 | Roscoe Goddard Greene - English language - 1839 - 142 pages
...additional termination beginning with a vowel ; as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving. Words ending in ce or ge retain the e before able or out, to preserve the soft sound of c and g ; as, peace, peaceable ; change, changeable ; outrage, outrageous.... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...additional termination beginning with a vowel : as, note, notable; force, forcible; hate, hating. Exc. — Words ending in ce or ge, retain the e before able or ous, to preserve the soft sound of c and g: as, peace, peaceable; manage, manageable; courage, courageous.... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...additional termination beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable; force, forcible ; rave, raving. Exc. — Words ending in ce or ge, retain the e before able or ous, to preserve the soft sound of c and g : as, peace, peaceable ; change, changeable ; outrage, outrageous.... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...termination beginning with a vowel :, as, rate, ratable ; foree, foreible ; rave, raving. Exc. — Words ending in ce or ge, retain the e before able or mis. to preserve the soft sound of c and g : as, peace, peaceable ; 'change, changeable ; outrage,... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1854 - 120 pages
...additional termination beginning with a vowel: as, rate, ratable, force, forcible ; rave, raving. Exc. Words ending in ce or ge retain the e before able or ous, to preserve the soft sound of candg-; as,peace, peaceable; change, changeable; outrage, outrageous.... | |
 | William W. Smith - Spellers - 1855 - 312 pages
...chiefly the following: ED, ING, BE, AGE, ous, AR, AL, ISH, ABLE, IBLE, ANCE, ENCE, URE, EN, EST, ITT, Y. EXCEPTIONS : "Words ending in CE, or GE, retain the E before ABLE, or ous, to preserve the soft sound of c and g. "Words ending in oe final, retain the e, to preserve the sound... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1856 - 144 pages
...termination beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving ; eye, eying. Exo.— Words ending in ce or ge retain the e before able or ous, to preserve the soft sound of c and g : as, peace, peaceable ; change, changeable; outrage, outrageous.... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1856 - 136 pages
...beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving ; eye, eying. Exo. — Words ending in ce or ge retain the e before able or ou», to preserve the soft sound of c and g : as, peace, peaceable ; change, changeable ; outrage,... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1856 - 358 pages
...beginning with a vowel : as, rate, ratable ; force, forcible ; rave, raving ; eye, eying. ExC. — Words ending in ce or ge, retain the e before able or оме, to preserve the soft sounds of с and g : as, peace, peaceable ; change, changeable ; outrage,... | |
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FINAL E. The final e of a primitive word, is generally retained before an additional termination beginning with a consonant ; as, pale, paleness ; lodge, lodgement. 
